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Shark News - Issue 1 | April 2021
Content:
- 4 Editorial: A note from the Chair
- 5 Q&A | Meet the SSG’s new Chair: Rima Jabado
- 9 The Co-Chairs’ view of a decade of shark conservation
- 12 Thank you note to all Regional Vice-Chairs stepping down
- 15 A welcome note to all the new Regional Vice-Chairs
- 18 Regional Vice-Chairs 2021-2024
- 19 Working Groups
- 24 John ‘Jack’ A. Musick
- 28 Curious about what shark species occur in South Africa?
- 30 Putting a face to a name
- 32 Founding MISS
- 36 Recently published
- 38 The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and Sharks
- 40 Shark Spotlight: The Bareback Guitarfish
- 41 Safe havens for sawfishes
- 56 Research for conservation and management
- 58 Pakistan – sawfish status and update
- 60 Report on the meeting of the Working Group on Recreational Fishing
- 61 Update from the IUCN SSG Africa Region
- 63 Contribution of the Russian SSG team
- 65 Upcoming meetings 2021
- 66 Funding opportunities
Summary
Welcome to the first quarterly issue of Shark News of 2021, the official IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Shark Specialist Group (SSG) newsletter! A community of scientists, researchers, and policy makers zealously working together to conserve sharks, rays, and chimaeras through the SSG and beyond. We are a growing community with over 240 members from 86 countries and territories but still a small one relative to groups worldwide that work on conserving other marine megafauna like sea turtles or cetaceans.
This first issue of the newsletter focuses on acknowledging the work accomplished by previous leaders and members while introducing the new SSG team and structure. We also have a feature story on sawfishes showcasing what scientists are doing to conserve one of the last remaining populations off Florida in the United States. We also take a closer look at some of the work members are doing across the Mediterranean Sea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Russia.
Shark News was the official SSG newsletter from June 1994 to October 2004. It was a testament to Sarah Fowler’s, one of the founding members of the SSG and former Chair, dedication and passion for sharks. We have decided to revive it to provide a forum for the exchange of information on all aspects of shark, ray, and chimaera conservation matters for SSG members and the general interested audience.
