Final summary report of the stock status of oceanic whitetip sharks and CITES-listed hammerhead sharks based on the results of the IOTC/CITES Shark Data Mining Workshop
Citation
Rice J (2017) Final summary report of the stock status of oceanic whitetip sharks and CITES-listed hammerhead sharks based on the results of the IOTC/CITES Shark Data Mining Workshop. In: IOTC - 13th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. IOTC-2017-WPEB13-INF01, San Sebastián, Spain
Abstract
In this report we present, for oceanic whitetip and CITES listed hammerhead shark species (smooth, great and scalloped hammerhead), information on the spatial distribution of catches; temporal trends in catch composition and catch rates; and key biological indicators of fishing pressure such as mean size and sex ratio. The analysis generally follows the framework first developed and described in the Pacific (Clarke and Harley, 2010, Rice et al 2015).