The first ever meeting of the newly formed 'Shark Trust' was held at
the London Aquarium on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of April 1998.
Saturday's talks were by:-
Sarah Fowler - Welcome and launch of the Shark Trust campaign.
Callum Rankine WWF-UK - WWF Shark Swim.
Lawson Wood - Whale shark tagging in the Seychelles.
Adrian & Graham Tyte - Video: A shark the size
of a whale.
Rolf Williams (NMA) - Shark fun at Bimini Biological Field
Station.
Lunch.
Ian Fergussion (ESRB) - Great White sharks in the Mediterranean.
Clare Eno (JNCC) - Protection of the basking shark in the
UK.
Paddy Walker (NISR) - Amazing Rays: the ecology of skates
and rays in the North Sea.
Davy Holt - The Glasgow Museum common skate tagging and release
programme.
Philip Vas - British sharks and rays.
Jo Pecorelli, Curator London Aquarium - Sharks at the London
Aquarium.
I could only attend the Sunday meeting which had more scientific
subjects by Nick Dulvy, Tim Thom and Jim Ellis of which I was
more interested in.
The main speakers were:-
Sarah Fowler - Welcome speech.
Gordon Croft - An Introduction to sharks.
Tim Thom, Mark O'Connell, Martyn Lucas and Rus Hoelzel (Durham University)
- The ecology of planktivorous sharks-a multidisciplinary approach.
Julian Metcalfe (CEFAS, Lowestoft) - Electronic tags for fish.
Linda Grotenbreg (MBS) - Catsharks of Kleinbaal, South Africa.
Lunch:
Scott Mycock & Rachel Cavanagh (Liverpool University) - Sharks
and Rays of East Malaysia.
Jean-Sebastien Houziaux - Sharks and rays fisheries records of
Belguim.
Paola Cordone, Marco Constantina and Giuliano Orel (University of Trieste,
Italy) -
The Benthic shark fishery in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic
Sea).
Nick Dulvy & John Reynolds (University of East Anglia) -
Temperature and the reproduction in sharks and rays.
Jim Ellis (CEFAS, Lowestoft) - Comparative feeding ecology of
Elasmobranch in British waters.
Peter Scott (MSC) - The work of the Marine Stewardship Council.
The meetings covered a very wide range of subjects and species
during the two days, with experts and non-experts covering a wide range
of disciplines and who were will to answer any question you might
have.
I started to talk to the person next to me and discovered he was also
a BMLSS member Andy ----, who was at the Saturday meeting and liked
Davy Holt's talk on the giant skate tagging off Oban Scotland as it was
more down to earth and not to scientific.
It is expensive at £30.00 per day but having the opportunity
to listen and be able to speak to so many experts in my opinion was worth
the expends.
The price included a ticket for the London Aquarium which was very
large, with two enormous marine tanks ( well over 1,000,000 litres in capacity
each). One contained 3 very large tropical sharks and a large number of
fish, the other was the Atlantic Ocean tank which contained some
smaller shark species and plenty of fish, plus a wide range of tanks for
many other groups and species of fish.
The main reason is to support the Shark Trust for the importance of
the sharks in keeping the seas and oceans clean of weak and dying fish
and free from desease is of the utmost importance to the well being of
our planet. They need as much protection as can be provided by us as a
nation and world wide help is also very important.
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