Carcharhinus longimanus | UAE National Red List of Marine Species: Reef-building corals, cartilaginous fishes and select bony fishes
Taxa
Carcharhinus longimanus | (Poey, 1861)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Data Deficient
Assessment status abreviation
DD
Assessment rationale/justification
In UAE waters, the Oceanic Whitetip Shark may occur only in offshore waters of the Sea of Oman, though this remains unconfirmed. Only a single record of the species was taken for Oman from extensive landing site surveys and it is not known if that individual was caught from the Sea of Oman. This formerly abundant large oceanic shark is subject to fishing pressure virtually throughout its range. It is frequently caught as a bycatch in pelagic fisheries. While there is limited species-specific information available, its large size, valuable fins and intensive fisheries mean that, like many other large carcharhinids, it has certainly declined. Capture of this species is totally banned in the UAE. Little is known on the population of this species in UAE waters, including the impact from the likely major threat of overexploitation. 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
In the UAE, sharks are impacted by both targeted 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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Carcharhinus longimanus | Animalia | Chordata | Chondrichthyes | Carcharhiniformes | Carcharhinidae | Carcharhinus |