Comment/Editorial: Jaws: The Ban

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (2001) Comment/Editorial: Jaws: The Ban. Samudra Report (30). p. 1. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

India is the second largest producer of elasmobranchii (sharks, rays and skates) in the world, after Indonesia. Shark fin from India is exported to Chinese consumers around the world, while, domestically, shark meat is consumed in the hinterland of south India. In 1999, the total production of elasmobranchii was around 70,000 tonnes, about 75 per cent of its maximum potential yield, as estimated by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute of India. Yet, on 11 July 2001, India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) banned all fishing of sharks, finding it expedient to bring all elasmobranchii under Schedule I of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0382
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, India, Elasmobranch, Ban, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Vulnerability, International Plan of Action (IPOA), Comment/Editorial
Subjects:	Fisheries Trade
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	22 Sep 2021 11:28
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 12:10
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/996

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