Theme session K: How are we managing? Developing new management tools for commercially exploited sharks and rays
Presentations for this session are invited on the following issues:
- Developments in tools for studying biology/ecology and stock structure: including tagging and telemetry, (genetic) stock structure, distribution and habitat models, and stable isotope analysis
- Novel alliances between science, industry, policy and NGOs: including collaborative work on vitality and post-release mortality of discards, development of best practices to reduce capture mortality and initiatives to develop programmes for collecting fishery-dependent data
- Emerging assessment methodologies: including use of life-history information in developing MSY/proxy reference points, methodologies for monitoring stock recovery and management decision tools, including spatial approaches and Management Strategy Evaluations