The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
CSRP-Sponsored Training Workshop For West African Scientists
Held in Sénégal
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CSRP-Sponsored Training Workshop For West African Scientists Held in Sénégal
October 2007
Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Sénégal
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A training workshop (Le Séminaire de Formation des Enquêteurs des Pêches) for West African scientists focusing on elasmobranch identification, biological sampling, and conservation
was held at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Sénégal
on October 9-14, 2007.
The workshop was organized locally by Mika Diop (PSRA,CSRP), and led by three prominent elasmobranch scientists.
Bernard Séret (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France) taught
participants about the identification of elasmobranch species found off the coast of West Africa;
Rui Coelho (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal) demonstrated
biological sampling techniques; and George Burgess (Florida Program For
Shark Research, University of Florida, U.S.A.) covered elasmobranch conservation and fishery management.
Workshop participants
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The goals of the workshop were to train West African biologists in chondrichthyan
(sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras) species identification and life history
(especially age determination and reproduction) methodologies, and to alert them
to their k-strategy life histories, globally threatened conservation status, and
the diminishing catches this group is experiencing worldwide.
This was the fourth such workshop held in West Africa in recent years,
the first being held in Nouadhibou, Mouritanie in December 2004 utilizing the same instructors, the second in Senegal in December 2005, and the third in Senegal in January 2007. Such training will lead to the acquisition of more refined fishery data which is so badly needed to manage already declining regional fisheries. In addition, the workshops hopefully will result in a more precautionary approach to the management of this group, which by definition is at higher risk than other fishes and cannot withstand high fishing pressure. The instructing scientists feel strongly that these workshops are highly beneficial and would like to conduct similar workshops throughout the region.
Professor Omar Thiom Thiaw, Institut Universitaire de Peche et d'Aquaculture, UCAD (Senegal) (left), Bernard Seret, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle,
Département Systématique et Evolution
Taxonomie & Collections (France) (middle), and Mika Diop, Biologiste des Pêches
Conseiller (Senegal) (right)
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Workshop Report (French language)- pdf file
Image Gallery of Workshop
Participant List
Senegal:
Lamine Mbaye
DPM, Dakar
lemzo67@hotmail.com
Moussa MBallo
Abass Badiane
Lamine Kane
Mame Marie Camara
IRD/UCAD
mamegeo@yahoo.fr
Mingué mar Dite Ndaté
Bahi Ould Beye
Guinea:
Framoudou Doumbouya
CNSHB
fdoumbouya@yahoo.fr
Mohamed Lamine Camara
Moussa Sylla
Guinea Bissau:
Inluta Incom
CIPA
i-incom200566@yahoo.fr
Duarte Bucal
CIPA
cipacr@hotmail.com
Joao Lenine Salvador de Rosario Gomes
Gambia:
Asberr N Mendy
FD
anmendy@yahoo.com
Fatou Joof
Amie Jallow
Mauritania:
Lamine Camara
MPEM
laminecam2000@yahoo.fr
Diallo Ibra
Mohamed Abderrahamane O/ Meinat
Talla Ismaila
Sierra Leone:
Tommy Taylor
Seisay Lahaid
Mohamed Kamara
MFMR
rammedkay@yahoo.fr
Workshop Organization:
Senegal:
Mika Diop
Biologiste des Pêches
Conseiller
Coordinateur du projet PSRA-Requins
Secrétariat Permanent de la Commission
Sous-Régionale des Pêches (CSRP),
SICAP, AMITIE 3. Villa 4430
BP 25 485
Dakar - Sénégal
Tél. (221) 864 04 75 ; Fax. (221) 864 04 77
Portable: 644 82 18
E-mail: csrp@sentoo.sn
mika_dfr@yahoo.fr
France:
Bernard Seret
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Département Systématique et Evolution
Taxonomie & Collections
Case Postale 26
43 rue Cuvier
75231 Paris cedex 05
Tel. (33)-(0)1.40.79.37.38
Fax (33)-(0)1.40.79.37.71
E-mail : seret@mnhn.fr
Web: http://www.mnhn.fr/
Portugal:
Rui Coelho
Universidade do Algarve
Faculdade de Ciências do Mar e Ambiente
Campus de Gambelas
8000 - Faro
Portugal
Tel: +351 289 800900 Ext. 7242
Fax: +315 289 818353
E-mail: rpcoelho@ualg.pt
Web: http://www.ualg.pt/fcma/cfrg/
U.S.A.:
George Burgess
Director - Florida Program for Shark Research
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
P O Box 117800
Gainesville, FL 32611
Tel. (352) 392-2360
Fax 352-392-7158
E-mail : gburgess@flmnh.ufl.edu
Web: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish
Funding for the workshop was provided by the Commission Sous-Regionale des Pêches (CSRP) who sponsored this workshop.
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