The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 2: October 1994
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Bibliography: technical reports
and publications
A social and economic characterization of the
U.S. Gulf of Mexico recreational fishery.
M.R. Fisher & R.B. Ditton, 1994. Marine Fisheries Review. 55(3): 21-27.
Abstract: "A mail survey of tournament shark anglers and party boat shark
anglers was completed to examine their fishing activity, attitudes, trip
expenditures and consumer surplus. A sample of 700 shark
anglers was selected from tournaments in the Gulf of
Mexico during 1990, and a sample of party boat shark
anglers was drawn from Port Aransas, Tex., party boat
anglers during the summer of 1991. A response rate
of 58% (excluding nondeliverables) was obtained
from tournament anglers. The sample of party boat
shark anglers was too small to provide useful results. Tournament shark
anglers reported fishing an average of 58 days per year and targeted
sharks and other large marine species. Tournaments occupy a small
portion of their fishing effort. If this group of anglers were not able to fish
for sharks, one-third indicated no other species would be an acceptable
substitute, while others were willing to substitute other large marine
species. Shark trip expenditures averaged $197 per trip with a consumer
surplus of $111 per trip. Based on Marine Recreational Fishery Statistics
Survey (MRFSS) estimates of the number of shark fishing trips, we estimate
a total of $43,355,000 was spent by shark anglers in the Gulf of Mexico
with a consumer surplus of $23,865,000 for a total gross value of the shark
fishery of $66,220,000. MRFSS estimates of the number of sharks landed
indicate an equivalent use value of $183 per shark."
The paper also compares these figures with the $500,000 annual
cost of enforcing commercial and recreational fisheries under the
Fishery Management Plan for Sharks of the Atlantic Ocean, 1992
(NMFS, NOAA), and concludes that the gross use value of the Gulf of
Mexico recreational fishery would appear to justify this expenditure,
since it results in a net benefit to the nation when the management
costs are subtracted.
World checklist of living chondrichthyan fishes
Leonard Compagno, Vice Chairman, IUCN Shark Specialist Group
Sub-equatorial African Region
This checklist has recently been drafted and is now available for
comment by other researchers involved in the taxonomic section of
the Shark Action Plan (contact the editor for a copy). Once their
comments have been incorporated, sponsorship will be sought to
enable the final list to be circulated with a future issue of Shark News.
Dr. Leonard J.V. Compagno, Curator of Fishes, Shark Research
Center, Department of Marine Biology, South African Museum, P.O.
Box 61, Cape Town, South Africa, Telephone: (+27) 21-24-3330.
FAX: (+27) 21-24-6716. eMail: alxrac01@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Proceedings of the second European Shark and
Ray Workshop. Tag and release schemes and
shark and ray management plans.
S.L. Fowler and R.C. Earll (editors) 1994.
This document presents papers and abstracts of presentations made
at the tagging workshop and other papers of European (North-east
Atlantic and Mediterranean) interest subsequently sent to the editors
by participants. Theworkshop recommendations are also summarised.
They include the need to improve regional and international shark
fisheries management, establish an international shark conservation
and management programme, and set up a European Elasmobranch
Working Group. Copies are available from Dr Clare Eno, JNCC,
Monkstone House, City Road, Peterborough PE1 1JY. UK.
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