Oceanographic Center Professor Addresses Audience in Ecuador on Shark Conservation

As part of the meeting on shark conservation, participants were taken to a fishing port to observe boats off-loading their shark catch. (Photo by Mahmood Shivji, Ph.D.)

Mahmood Shivji, Ph.D., Oceanographic Center associate professor and director of the Guy Harvey Research Institute, was invited to speak during a meeting of Eastern Pacific nation government representatives from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Group in Ecuador on July 11. The focus of the meeting was mechanisms and policy for international cooperation to improve shark conservation and fisheries management in the eastern Pacific.

The meeting was sponsored by the Ecuador Government, U.S. State Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and International Union for Conservation of Nature.