The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 14: March 2002
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Elasmobranch research in Brazil
In November 2001, a workshop was held in Santos on Chondrichthyes,
organised by NUPEC (Nucleo de Estudo e Pesquisa em Chondrichthyes),
and the Instituto de Pesca. The workshop focused on diseases and
parasites of sharks and rays in captivity. In addition, the problems of
commercial trade in elasmobranchs in the Amazon region was
discussed, as was the issue of shark bycatch in the region.
Brazilian representatives participated in the ICCAT Data Preparatory
Meeting for Atlantic Shark Stock Assessments, held in Canada in 2001.
This year the Department of Fishery (Departamento de Pesca e
Aqüicultura), Ministry of Agriculture (Ministério da Agricultura e do
Abastecimento) created a national tuna and alike specialist group (Sub-
Comitê Científico do Comitê Consultivo Permanente de Gestão sobre
Atuns e Afins-SC/CPG), and has held some meetings in order to work
on pelagic shark data from longliners. The national pelagic shark
assessment statistical meeting will take place in April 2002.
The major problem in Brazil with the coastal and freshwater
elasmobranch catch statistics and trade is the lack of control, and
monitoring by species or group of species. The number of specialists
here are few, so we do not have appropriate statistics to evaluate the
real situation of these animals.
The next SBEEL meeting (Sociedade Brasileira Para O Estudo De
Elasmobranquios) will be held in Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, at Universidade
Federal da Paraíba, 25-29 November, 2002.
Alberto Amorim
SSG Regional Vice-Chair, Southwest Atlantic
Email: crisamorim@uol.com.br
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