NPOA - Vanuatu National Plan of Action on Sharks (2015-2018)

Abstract

Consistent with the Fisheries Act No. 10 2014, this Plan: (i) is a policy guideline that ensures conservation, management, development and sustainable use of oceanic sharks in Vanuatu waters; (ii) promotes long-term biological sustainability and rational optimum and economic utilization of sharks in Vanuatu’s Tuna longline fishery; and (iii) serves to prevent, avoid or minimize any potential adverse environmental and social impacts, effects or risks of fishing, other human activities and environ mental factors on oceanic shark species