Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED SHARK CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT MEASURE FOR THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE NINTH REGULAR SESSION 6-14 August 2013 Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia Towards an Integrated Shark Conservation and Management Measure for the Western and Central Pacific Ocean WCPFC-SC9-2013/ EB-WP-08

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FIFTH REGULAR SESSION 10-21 August 2009 Port Vila, Vanuatu An Alternative Estimate of Catches of Five Species of Sharks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean based on Shark Fin Trade Data WCPFC-SC5-2005/EB-WP-02

Conservation and Management Measure 2008‐06 was implemented by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in February 2009 and requires the Commission to work toward providing preliminary advice on the stock status of key shark species in 2010. While the need for shark assessments is thus well‐recognised, catch data necessary to support such assessments is, in many cases, insufficien...

Shifting from marine reserves to maritime zoning for conservation of Pacific bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus).

Over 50% of the total bigeye tuna (BET) landed in the Western Central Pacific Ocean is caught incidentally in the purse seine fishery and sold for canning at prices less than US$2/kg. The remainder is landed in longline fisheries directed at BET and sold as fresh or frozen tuna at prices greater than US$10/kg. The combined fishing mortality by all gears will soon reduce the BET biomass in the P...

Population trends in Pacific Oceanic sharks and the utility of regulations on shark finning.

Accurate assessment of shark population status is essential for conservation but is often constrained by limited and unreliable data. To provide a basis for improved management of shark resources, we analyzed a long-term record of species-specific catches, sizes, and sexes of sharks collected by onboard observers in the western and central Pacific Ocean from 1995 to 2010. Using generalized line...

Using ecological niche modeling to determine avian richness hotspots

Understanding distributions of wildlife species is a key step towards identifying biodiversity hotspots and designing effective conservation strategies. In this paper, the spatial pattern of diversity of birds in Golestan Province, Iran was estimated. Ecological niche modeling was used to determine distributions of 144 bird species across the province using a maximum entropy algorithm. Richness...