Codes of conduct for Shark encounters

[Derby]

Fishery Notice - Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Subject: FN0069-General Information - Codes of Conduct for Shark Encounters

Codes of conduct for shark encounters have been posted online and can be found
at the URL links provided below. These guidelines include boat handling
procedures during visual encounters with Basking Sharks, as well as best
practices for handling Canadian Pacific shark species during entanglement
encounters.

Code of conduct for sharks:
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/species-especes/shark-requin/conduct_shark-
conduite_requin-eng.html

Code of conduct for Basking Sharks:
http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/species-especes/shark-requin/conduct_basking-
conduite_pelerin-eng.html

Shark populations are generally vulnerable to the threat of fishing induced
mortality, including incidental capture and entanglement. Life history
characteristics such as longevity, late age-at-maturity, and low fecundity make
it difficult for shark populations to recover in abundance after depletion.

Out of fourteen shark species in Canadian Pacific waters, three species are
listed under the Species at Risk Act (SARA). The Basking Shark (Cetorhinus
maximus) is listed as “Endangered”, and the Bluntnose Sixgill Shark (Hexanchus
griseus) and Tope Shark (Galeorhinus galeus) are listed as species of “Special
Concern”.

In order to address conservation concerns with shark species, it is important
that measures are taken to reduce the mortality of sharks resulting from
bycatch and entanglement. As such, commercial fishing licences have been
amended to include a Condition of Licence for Basking Sharks that specifies
mitigation measures in accordance with SARA permit requirements. 'Code of
Conduct for Shark Encounters' documents have been developed to reduce the
mortality of Basking Shark, as well as other Canadian Pacific shark species
such as Bluntnose Sixgill and Tope Shark resulting from entanglement and
bycatch in commercial, aquaculture, and recreational fisheries.


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

 

[Pippen]

Hey Derby......I know you are just posting this up from DFO but the links are on a bad pathway with a "file not found" error.

 

[finaddict]

The 3 species listed are all deep water species (as in > 500 feet) and not likely to be encountered by sports anglers.These C.O.C's are for trawlers and bottom dredgers, the ocean vacuums that are unable to target anything except everything. I guess DFO is trying to say that they have taken measures to reduce by-catch.

 

[Derby]

Hey Derby......I know you are just posting this up from DFO but the links are on a bad pathway with a "file not found" error.

I have passed it on to the powers to be and work on...

 

[beemer]

The 3 species listed are all deep water species (as in > 500 feet) and not likely to be encountered by sports anglers.These C.O.C's are for trawlers and bottom dredgers, the ocean vacuums that are unable to target anything except everything. I guess DFO is trying to say that they have taken measures to reduce by-catch.

bluntnose 6 gills come up to under 100 feet during the summer months in the Sooke and Victoria area. I have seen several caught and have recovered one that is now in the BC museum. http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/ecology/rocky-blunt_6gill.htm

beemer

 

[finaddict]

bluntnose 6 gills come up to under 100 feet during the summer months in the Sooke and Victoria area. I have seen several caught and have recovered one that is now in the BC museum. http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/ecology/rocky-blunt_6gill.htm

beemer

Thanks Beemer, did not know that . Must be a helluva pantspooper when you try bringing up one of those.......

 

[beemer]

Thanks Beemer, did not know that . Must be a helluva pantspooper when you try bringing up one of those.......

Yup , I've got 5 stitches to show for it!

beemer

 

[Pippen]

Hmmm........"scream like a little school girl" when you see a shark is not in the "Code of Conduct for Shark Encounters" ??

That "code" has bigger balls than me.

 

[finaddict]

Hmmm........"scream like a little school girl" when you see a shark is not in the "Code of Conduct for Shark Encounters" ??

That "code" has bigger balls than me.

the "code" doesn't wear a pink t-shirt...........................

 

[profisher]

I know a 6 gill was caught and released off the docks at Chinootka Lodge in Nootka Sound a number of years ago. It would have been feeding on cleaning table scraps that made it to the bottom in about 70ft of water.