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Final report of the third mission meeting on conservation of sharks

Webmaster — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 05:43:56 +0000

Attached is the final report and minutes of the third mission meeting held last month in Mangalore.

This contains the details of the meeting as well as several salient recommendations/suggestions/ideas that arose from participants. Please see the linked document for the full report as well as the suggestions listed below:

Report of the mission meeting

Feasible conservation measures should be evolved and should be adopted for saving sharks-the health of our ocean.
Data regarding sharks under viviparous, oviparous, and ovoviviparous categories are needed as it is important for recommending shark conservation measures.
Modern facilities and human resource may be provided to CMFRI for identifying and assimilating information on the three categories of sharks
Special programmes should organize for Conservation organizations, environmentalists, medias to provide field level inputs on conservation of sharks.
Encourage fisheries college students to take up shark conservation related projects as part of their course.
The CMFRI should initiate field level projects to work with fishing community.
ICT and expertise of IEEE could be tapped for conservation of sharks
The Secretary, Government of India of the MoEF & CC will be the Chairperson for the National Mission on Conservation of Sharks-India
Provide separate secretariat for NMCSI in the MoEF & CC, Delhi for the operation of shark conservation related activities at National level.
The Secretaries of the Government of the respective states of the Department of Environment and Forests will be Chairpersons for the State Missions in each coastal states
Provide separate secretariat in the particular Department for operation of shark conservation related activities at State level.
The National Mission combined with the State Missions will be the major link between the Government and the community for shark conservation related activities.
The present Core Team has to be strengthened
There will be permanent members from the MoEF & CC, CMFRI, FSI, MPEDA, CITES, FAO etc other than the present members to the Core Team
The fourth National Mission Meeting will be held at Goa and the responsibility for organizing the meeting is given to Advocate Jose Bilbin
The fifth National Mission Meeting will be held at Andhra Pradesh and the responsibility for organizing the meeting is given to Mr. Arjalidasu
Complete the Mission Meetings in rest of the states and submit the report in the month of August 2015

Headlines from the shark conservation mission meeting in Mangalore

Webmaster — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 08:37:37 +0000

The work of ADSGAF and partners in organizing the third mission meeting in Mangalore has attracted headlines in regional and national newspapers.

Click the links below to see coverage of this important effort.

Successful 3rd Mission Meeting on Conservation of Sharks – India!

Webmaster — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:02:07 +0000

Photo report of third mission meeting

Third national mission meeting for shark conservation is next week

Webmaster — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:08:56 +0000

Location/agenda update for National Mission for Conservation of Sharks India – 3

Webmaster — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:04:17 +0000

The location has been fixed for NMCSI-3 on 20 November. It will be held at the Goldfinch Hotel in Mangalore. See the image below for a tentative agenda and click to enlarge.

The start time of the event is at 10 a.m. We expect to wrap up by 3:30 p.m. or so.

Third national meeting on shark conservation

Webmaster — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 03:03:50 +0000

The third National Mission Meeting on Conservation of Sharks-India will be held 20th November 2014 at Manglore. The detailed programme and venue will be informed you soon. The venue, date and other details will be send you soon.

The first national meeting was held outside Trivandrum in March and the second in Chennai in July.