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Shark Regulation Updates

Posted on August 13, 2013October 28, 2013 By Chuck Bangley 12 Comments on Shark Regulation Updates
Conservation

While Shark Week was raging along, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) approved a new round of shark fishery regulations for public comment.  Quite a bit has happened since the last time we covered U.S. shark fisheries here, so it’s time for a bit of a recap before discussing how the latest developments affect sharks and the people who fish for them.

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A Call to Action: Preventing a Potential Setback in U.S. Atlantic Shark Finning Policy

Posted on March 27, 2013October 27, 2013 By Guest Writer 12 Comments on A Call to Action: Preventing a Potential Setback in U.S. Atlantic Shark Finning Policy
Conservation
Sonja Fordham President, Shark Advocates International
Sonja Fordham
President, Shark Advocates International

SAISonja Fordham founded Shark Advocates International as a project of The Ocean Foundation in 2010 based on her two decades of shark conservation experience at  Ocean Conservancy.  She is Deputy Chair of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group and Conservation Committee Chair for the American Elasmobranch Society, has co-authored numerous publications on shark fisheries management, and serves on most of the U.S. federal and state government advisory panels relevant to sharks and rays.  Her awards include the U.S. Department of Commerce Environmental Hero Award, the Peter Benchley Shark Conservation Award, and the IUCN Harry Messel Award for Conservation Leadership.

After many months of intense attention to advances in international shark conservation policy through CITES and the European Parliament, it’s time to refocus on sharks in my backyard.  A potentially terrible shark policy precedent has been brewing through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), and threatens to weaken that body’s coast-wide ban on finning (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea) smoothhounds and other sharks.  Help from the concerned public is needed in the final few days of the official public comment for this proposal!

 

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