Prionace glauca | UAE National Red List of Marine Species: Reef-building corals, cartilaginous fishes and select bony fishes
Taxa
Prionace glauca | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Data Deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
Assessment rationale/justification
In UAE waters, the Blue Shark may occur only in offshore waters of the Sea of Oman, though this remains unconfirmed. This species is considered productive, as it is relatively fast-growing and fecund. Around the world, the Blue Shark is taken in large numbers (an estimated 20 million individuals annually), mainly as bycatch, but there are no population estimates and many catches are unreported. IOTC fishery assessments suggest a wide range of stock statuses ranging from 'underexploited' to 'overfished with overfishing' occurring. Little is known on the population of this species in UAE waters. Given that its distribution in UAE waters (the Sea of Oman) remains uncertain, this species is listed as Data Deficient.
Assessment year
2019
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Government
IGO
Assessor affiliation specific
Government|IGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. iv + 32pp pp. And IUCN. 2012. Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
Endemic to region
Not_assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Threats listed in assessment
Given the lack of clarity around the species occurrence in UAE waters, threats are poorly understood. In the UAE, sharks have been impacted by targeted commercial fisheries until 2014 when a ban on export of sharks was imposed (Ministry of Climate Change and Environment). Sharks continue to be impacted by artisanal and bycatch fisheries (Annual Fisheries Statistical Report for Abu Dhabi Emirate 2001-2018), though catch data are not species-specific. Marine habitats in the region have experienced high levels of disturbance and are quickly deteriorating due to major impacts from development activities (Sheppard <em style=""font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2; text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px"">et al. 2010).
Conservation Measures
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Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Prionace glauca | Animalia | Chordata | Chondrichthyes | Carcharhiniformes | Carcharhinidae | Prionace |