The Use of CITES for Commercially-exploited Fish Species

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The shared fish stocks conservation: revisiting the unconnected enforcement

“…Another crucial problem which CCSBT must deal with is how to warrant that any States having high stakes interest in SBT fishing are willing to act together with the organization. Parties who can lawfully fish in the CCSBT management area are those who have been registered as members or cooperating non-members (Guggisberg, 2016). However, there will always possibility for other RFMOs fail to cooperate with CCSBT.…”

Shark and ray trade in and out of Indonesia: Addressing knowledge gaps on the path to sustainability

“…Of these, 30 are distributed in Indonesian and adjacent waters. Other authors have debated the effectiveness of the Convention's measures [23,48], but the Indonesian context is unique in its complexity, whereby high species diversity, high harvested biomass, complex internal trade routes, local population needs, and poor reporting and the potential for illegal wildlife trade all compound to set major challenges for the sustainable management of sharks and rays. Due to its failure to incorporate the complex reality of socio-ecological systems, the effectiveness of the CITES framework has been questioned in relation to tackling illegal wildlife trade [28,48].…”

“…This includes improving reporting, introducing regulations and ensuring compliance (e.g. through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) framework [23] and other approaches [24], with the ultimate goal of identifying a balance between preserving wildlife and sustainable resource use.…”

Examining the impact of CITES listing of sharks and rays in Southeast Asian fisheries

“…Interventions to regulate or control trade include the implementation of market-related processes that encourage progressive and sustainable practices (Gutiérrez et al, 2012;Kvalvik, Noestvold, & Young, 2014), and/or binding conventions (e.g., CITES) that require specific provisions to be serviced (Guggisberg, 2016 If CITES-listed sharks and rays and their products are exported, the certification under the CITES regulation is required by Japan's domestic law implementation of fisheries management enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Caddy & Cochrane, 2001) and delivered through an ecosystem approach to fisheries management (Bianchi, 2008;Staples & Funge-Smith, 2009).…”

“…The need for management and conservation of exploited elasmobranchs is widely accepted (Dulvy et al, 2014), and the provisions CITES offers are a useful tool to encourage sustainable management for internationally traded species (Vincent, de Mitcheson, Fowler, & Lieberman, 2014). However, the merits of investing in the management and conservation of marine species, through the trade-related Convention, and the effectiveness, costs, impacts and benefits of this approach are still widely debated (Challender, Harrop, & MacMillan, 2015;Christie, Oracion, & Eisma-Osorio, 2011;Cochrane, 2015;Cochrane & Doulman, 2005;Foster, Wiswedel, & Vincent, 2016;Franckx, 2011;Guggisberg, 2016;Mace, O'Criodain, Rice, & Sant, 2014;. This is partly because a large range of established instruments and mechanisms for fisheries management already exist (Caddy & Cochrane, 2001;Cochrane & Garcia, 2009;Gutiérrez, Hilborn, & Defeo, 2011;Marashi, 1996;Melnychuk, Peterson, Elliott, & Hilborn, 2017), and because many species of elasmobranchs are caught as bycatch and have significant value for the domestic market, which is not subject to CITES controls.…”