January 31, 2020
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By collaborating with fishers, governments with limited resources for enforcement can more easily identify vessels that illegally harvest shark fin. It is impossible to deny that sharing data between researchers and sustainable fishers can lead to potential progress. Currently, fishery-dependent data conjures the clearest explanatory variables about shark bycatch. Improving the accessibility of these data sets for researchers can speed up the time it takes to discover the most significant contributors to shark bycatch. With this collaboration between fishermen and shark scientists, information otherwise unattainable can be passed on to policymakers, and legislation assisting the increase of targeted fish stocks would be easy to write.
