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Type
Titre Venue & Date Détails
Bay of Bengal Capacity Building Workshop on CITES Appendix II Listings of Shark and Manta Ray Species, Chennai, India, 26-28 August 2014 Chennai, India
26 - 28 août 2014

Meeting summary

 

Geneva, 3 September 2014:  The Bay of Bengal Capacity Building Workshop on CITES Appendix II Listings of Shark and Manta Ray Species was held in Chennai, India from 26 to 28 August 2014. The workshop was hosted by the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (CITES Management of Authority of India), in cooperation with the C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre, Chennai, and Humane Society International. 

Government representatives from CITES and fisheries authorities from all of the Bay of Bengal region (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand) , which constitutes a significant shark-fishing region, engaged in active discussions at the meeting.  The representatives from a number of coastal states of India were also present to learn about the CITES measures in place and to discuss their challenges and needs in implementing the new CITES listings at the subnational level.

The workshop was opened by Mr. M. L. Srivastava, IFS, Deputy Inspector-General of Forests, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (CITES Management Authority of India); Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, Chairman, CPREEC; Mr. N. G. Jayasimha, Managing Director, Humane Society International; and John E. Scanlon, CITES Secretary General (see CITES Secretary-General’s remarks).  Representatives from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP), Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project (BOBLME), and the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Secretariat were also present to define better their roles in the region.

Delegates used the outcomes of two recent meetings in the region (FAO/CITES Regional consultative workshop on sharks for Asia, Xiamen, China; and Pew Charitable Trusts South Asia Workshop, Colombo, Sri Lanka) to develop a regional plan and agree on the roles and responsibilities of national and regional stakeholders on the different elements of CITES implementation, including coordination and communication; capacity-building, data collection and NDFs, and so on. 

A parallel poster session was held to review the status of sharks and the legal, administrative and management regimes for shark fisheries within their waters, which generated much interest and productive discussions on sharing information and know-how in the corridors.

Participants to the workshop

See also:
Pew Charitable Trusts Panama in-country workshop on implementing the CITES Shark Appendix II Listings Panama City, Panama
21 août 2014
Atelier de mise à l’essai des documents d’orientation sur les avis de commerce non préjudiciable pour les espèces de requins Bonn, Allemagne
20 - 21 août 2014
NOAA / Species Survival Network Regional workshop on the implementation of the CITES shark and ray listings, Dakar, Senegal Dakar, Senegal
12 - 14 août 2014

 

10e session régulière du Comité scientifique de la Commission des pêches du Pacifique ouest et centre (CPPOC) Iles Marshall
06 - 14 août 2014
Pew Charitable Trusts South Asia Workshop: Implementing the CITES Shark Appendix II Listings Colombo, Sri Lanka
30 - 31 juillet 2014
87e session de la Commission interaméricaine du thon tropical (CIATT) Lima, Pérou
14 - 18 juillet 2014
Pew Charitable Trusts Peru in-country workshop on implementing the CITES Shark Appendix II Listings Lima, Peru
11 juillet 2014
Sharks Side event of the 65th meeting of CITES Standing Committee (SC65) SC65 (CICG Room 13), Geneva, Switzerland
07 juillet 2014

 

>>> Summary of the meeting

 

CITES-FAO presentations from the Sharks side event at SC65: 

CITES-FAO collaboration on sharks and rays: main themes
Lessons learned from the CITES-FAO needs assessment workshops and the way forward
Field guide to the identification of sharks from fins & iSharkFin

65e session Geneva, Suisse
07 - 11 juillet 2014

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