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Shark Depredation and Bycatch in Pelagic Longline Fisheries Page 16 Chapter 5 Economic, Practical, Ecological and Social Problems from Shark – Longline Interactions 5.1. Economic and Practical Concerns Shark interactions in pelagic longline fisheries result in substantial inconveniences and adverse economic effects, including: (vi) Depredation. Lost revenue from shark damage to target species can amount to several thousand U.S. dollars in a single set in some fisheries (Fig. 5.1). (vii) Damage and loss of gear. Sharks bite off terminal tackle (e.g., baited hook, leader, weighted swivel, and line) from branch lines, stretch and chafe branch lines, break the main line, and some shark species will pull the gear down causing branch lines to become entangled. (viii) Reduced catch of marketable species. When baited hooks are occupied or removed by sharks, there are fewer hook available to catch non-sharks marketable species; (ix) Risk of injury. It is dangerous for crew to handle caught sharks and there is a risk of being hit by weights when branch lines containing sharks break during gear retrieval; and (x) Expenditure of time. A majority of fishers consider the time required to remove sharks from gear, retrieve terminal tackle and repair and replace gear as a central concern resulting from shark interactions. Fig. 5.1. Shark-damaged yellowfin tuna (left) and bigeye tuna caught in the Hawaii pelagic longline fisheries (photos courtesy of U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Hawaii Pelagic Longline Observer Program). In fisheries where there is demand for shark products, where vessels continuously or periodically target sharks, fishermen generally perceive these costs to be a minor inconvenience and are not problematic enough to create an incentive to avoid sharks. However, in fisheries with restrictions on finning, a lack of market for shark meat, or a per-trip limit on shark retention, where shark catch rates are relatively high, shark interactions are perceived to be a major inconvenience and represent a substantial economic cost. In the Australia longline tuna and billfish fishery, fishermen estimate that they lose 20% of their catch of target species due to shark damage, while damage and loss of gear from shark interactions amounts to a loss of about AUD 100 per set. Considerable time is also expended to discard caught sharks. The average catch rate of sharks is about 5.5 sharks per 1000 hooks compared to the catch rate of target and incidental fish of about 20.5 fish per 1000 hooks. However, on a given set, the shark catch can be extremely high (hundreds of sharks) resulting in great cost.
Page 17 Shark Depredation and Bycatch in Pelagic Longline Fisheries Fishers in the Chile mahi mahi and shark fishery and swordfish fishery report that sharks are an important target or incidental catch species. In the Chile fisheries, fishers perceive that revenue from catching sharks exceeds costs from shark interactions. In a typical mahi mahi set, costs from the loss and damage to gear is about USD 18.5 and in the swordfish fishery 50-100 branchlines are damaged from shark interactions on a typical set. Fishermen reported having an average of 5.5 mahi mahi and 3.3 swordfish damaged from shark depredation on a typical set in the artisanal mahi mahi fishery and swordfish fishery, respectively. This represents a loss of about USD 146 per mahi mahi set and USD 1,063 per swordfish set. In the Fiji longline tuna fishery, almost all caught sharks are finned (Table 3.1) and carcasses are usually discarded. Shark carcasses are infrequently retained because of the low value of shark meat. Survey respondents generally perceive that costs from shark interactions, including economic costs and time spent to deal with the interactions, exceed the revenue from shark fins. However, all interview respondents stated that the cost from gear damage and loss from sharks and loss and damage of target species and bait is nominal. The general opinion of the interviewees was that while sharks provide an important source of income for crew, the time lost in processing the sharks and the lost bait and target species exceeds the benefit from the income generated. In the Italy Mediterranean industrial longline swordfish fishery, where the shark catch rate is low and sharks are occasionally retained for the sale of meat, fishermen find the costs from shark interactions to be a minor inconvenience. Few (0 - 10) branch lines are damaged or lost to sharks on a typical set, and very rarely is a target species damaged by sharks, and at most two target species are damaged by sharks per set. However, despite the perceived low frequency of shark interactions and nominal economic cost from these interactions, fishermen believe that the revenue from catching sharks is exceeded by costs from shark interactions, and there is some concern over the safety risk of handling caught sharks. As a result fishermen in this fishery are interested in reducing shark interactions as long as this does not adversely affect their catch rate of target species (Piovano, this volume). In Japanese longline fisheries, where fins are retained from the majority of caught sharks and in some cases carcasses are retained for their meat, costs of shark interactions are perceived to be minor. Gear damage and loss from shark interactions is considered a much less important problem than shark damage to hooked tunas and billfishes, which can result in the damage of as many as three fish per set, where shark depredation of one fish every 3-5 sets is more typical (Clarke, this volume). Fishers in the Peru artisanal mahi mahi and shark longline fishery also report that the revenue from catching sharks exceeds costs from shark interactions, and that sharks are an important incidental catch species during the mahi mahi season, and the main target species the remainder of the year. Fishers estimate that they incur a cost of USD 11 per set due to damage and loss of gear, and have an average of about USD 30 from 7.5 mahi mahi being damaged from sharks on a typical set from shark interactions during the mahi mahi season. In the South Africa longline tuna and swordfish fishery, fishers report that shark damage to their gear and the loss of bait from shark interactions is a concern. On average, they will lose the terminal tacks of between 10-30 branch lines, although this is highly variable from set to set. On typical sets, 2 to 5 commercially valuable fish are damaged or lost to sharks. In the U.S. Hawaii longline swordfish fishery, where > 99% of caught sharks were discarded in 2006 when the shark catch rate was 16.7 sharks per 1000 hooks (the catch rate of retained fish is about 23 fish per 1000 hooks), and in the Hawaii longline tuna fishery, where > 97% of caught sharks were discarded in 2006 when the shark catch rate was 2.2 sharks per 1000 hooks (the catch rate of retained fish is about 13 fish per 1000 hooks), fishermen perceive the time required to remove sharks from gear and to rebuild damaged and lost gear to be a substantial inconvenience (Gilman et al., 2006a; Gilman, this volume). Crew will rebuild all branch lines on which sharks are caught. Caught sharks stretch the line and chafe the line from contact with their skin, weakening it so that there is a risk of losing a caught fish on a subsequent set if the gear were not rebuilt. Risk to injury of crew from caught sharks is also identified as a substantial concern. Economic costs from the damage and loss of gear is nominal, costing an
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