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05 Nov 2015

Capacity-building Workshop on Bycatch Held in Oman

article originally posted at: http://www.cms.int/en/news/capacity-building-workshop-bycatch-held-oman-0  Shark identification training for workshop participants at the fish market provided by Dr. Rima Jabado A capacity building workshop to support the implementation of the Regional Observer Scheme of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) was organized by the IOTC Secretariat in cooperation...

11 Jul 2013

IWC/CPPS/Ecuador Training Workshop for Responding to Large Whale Entanglement Events

[caption id="attachment_1445" align="alignleft" width="355"] Large whale disentanglement workshop underway in Ecuador[/caption] This regional training workshop was carried out in Salinas, Ecuador, 27-28 June 2013. The entanglement of large whales in small scale gillnets has been identified as a major conservation issue in some countries of the...

30 Mar 2013

Indonesia’s new stranding network

Indonesia has one of the longest coastlines in the world – over 80,000km. About 35 species of cetaceans, plus the dugong, are known to occur in the region, and a myriad of human activities take place in the marine environment.  Therefore the country is likely...