BYCATCH TRAINING

BYCATCH REDUCTION TRAINING AMONG OFFSHORE FISHERMEN

We enlisted more than 22 hundred artisanal fishing boats along Cox’s Bazar and South central coast. We trained 192 fishermen captain for bycatch reduction and monitoring bycatch at offshore location. Training was conducted at Cox’s Bazar, St, Martin Island, Teknaf, Samlapur, Cepotkhali, Moheskhali and Sonadia Island. Training included lecture and presentation and documentaries show on sea turtle and marine underwater biodiversity, the techniques of bycatch reduction in the world. Fishermen were provided with ID guide, T-shirts, Fishermen were provided with measuring taps, ID guide, information and education materials package, T-shirt, scissors(to cut nets to release entangled turtle). We discussed on sea turtle in Bay of Bengal & nesting along Bangladesh coast, ecological role of sea turtle, bycatch intensity & fishermen’s experience. Discussed on sea turtle identification, data collection procedure in offshore areas and discussed the reduction of bycatch and use of TED (Turtle Excluder Device).

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Shark Finning

The Massacre of the World's Sharks for Soup BY EDWARD DORSON The world's sharks are quickly vanishing and it's primarily driven by the demand for shark fins as an ingredient of a status symbol soup devoured throughout Asia at weddings and banquets. Approximately 73 to 100 million sharks are killed annually worldwide just for their fins. Some shark populations are already functionally extinct, having declined by as much as 99%. The outcome of further inaction will soon create a vast jellyfish soup, formally known as the ocean. Sharks targeted by finners aren't taken whole; their valuable fins (up to $700 a kilo, at the time of this writing) are sliced off and the living mutilated shark is tossed back into the sea to sink and slowly die. It is despicably inhumane. The obliteration of 400 million years of evolution for some perceived social status with serving shark fin soup isn't just idiotic and cruel - it's tragic. A healthy ocean depends on sharks. Scientific...

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