The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 7: June 1996
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Sharks and Man
Great white shark Carcharodon carcharias. © Ian Fergusson, 1994.
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This workshop on shark management and conservation will be held
on 2nd August at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
following the World Fisheries Congress. The three sessions will cover
Shark Control (including gear technology and bycatch reduction,
sonic "avoidance" beacons, and electric field barriers), Shark Fisheries,
and Shark Conservation. Draft agendas for the latter two sessions are:
Session 1. Management of Shark Fisheries
Information needs for management of shark fisheries: Terry Walker
(Convenor, Victorian Fisheries Research Institute).
Overview of world's shark fisheries: Ramon Bonfil.
Management of the artisanal shark fishery in the Gulf of Mexico:
Fernando Mârquez and Leonardo Castillo.
Shark fisheries of Africa: Warwick Sauer.
Recreational and industrial shark fisheries of North America: Greg
Cailliet, David Holts and Pamela Mace.
Stock assessment and risk analysis for school shark off Southern
Australia: André Punt.
Shark fishery management in Australia - Keeping the fish in "fish 'n'
chips" : Trysh Stone.
General discussion & summing up.
Session 3. Shark Conservation
Organisers: John Stevens (CSIRO Fisheries, Australia), Merry Camhi
(National Audubon Society, USA) and Sarah Fowler (Nature
Conservation Bureau, UK).
Introduction: John Stevens (CSIRO Fisheries, Australia).
Shark Specialist Group update - action plan and report to CITES: Sarah
Fowler (Nature Conservation Bureau, UK) and Merry Camhi
(National Audubon Society, USA).
CITES and sharks - summary of the CITES discussion paper by the US
government: Andrea Oliver (NMFS, USA).
IUCN Red List - applying the criteria to elasmobranchs: Elodie
Hudson (Zoological Society of London, UK).
Red List species assessments: Leonard
Compagno (South African Museum).
International trade in sharks and shark
products and implications for shark
management and conservation: Glenn Sant
(TRAFFIC, Australia) and Debra Rose (TRAFFIC, USA).
Status of freshwater elasmobranchs: Leonard Compagno
(South African Museum).
Protected species status - white shark and grey nurse: Jon Presser
(South Australian Fisheries) and Dave Pollard (Fisheries Research
Institute, Australia).
Options for international shark management: Sonja Fordham (Center
for Marine Conservation, USA).
Elasmobranch bycatch monitoring: Ramon Bonfil (UBC, Canada).
Public attitude to shark control in Queensland - results of a preliminary
survey: Clyde Wilde (Griffith University, Australia) or John Stevens
(CSIRO Fisheries, Australia).
Summation: Shark conservation in the 21st Century: Michael
Sutton (WWF, UK).
General discussion.
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