The shark fishery management plan aims to preserve these species. The established management measures seek to conserve and manage these species, to monitor the fishing activities of the ships targeting them and to establish a commercial traceability of liver oils and shark fins.
Management measures
- Protect the inventory of sharks that are located at the top of the food chain and that participate in the regulation between the prey species ;
- prohibit the targeting of surface and bottom shark species ;
- prohibit fishing, the detention on board, the transhipment, landing, the storage and the sale of all or a part of the carcass of the 3 following species: the hammer shark (family of shyrnidae), the oceanic shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), and the Fox Shark to big eyes (Alopias superciliosus);
- prohibit the processing and handling to edge of shark species of substance and surface including the extraction of the livers and the removal of fins (fining);
- Identify the Sharks Caught by Species (breakdown by species) instead of grouping all species landed in the group of sharks and squalidés.
Legal references
- Decision on the safekeeping of shark species in Moroccan waters implemented since 2009 (from 2009 to 2011). It allowed the implementation of measures aimed at the preservation of these species (catch threshold not exceeding 5%, prohibition of targeting of these species, prohibition of treatment (evisceration and removal of fins), ...);
- Ministerial decree (No. 1654-12 of 09 April 2012) aimed for the temporary prohibition of fishing for three species of sharks: hammerhead shark, oceanic shark and bigeye thresher shark;
- The provisions and measures of RFMOs (FAO, ICCAT, GFCM, ACCOBAMS, ...) and FAO Action Plans.