Recent Highlights

Maldives Ban Shark Fishing

The Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture officially announced yesterday the successful passage of the regulation regarding the banning of shark fisheries. The regulation, which comes into effect from March 1, 2009, imposes a complete ban on fishing for any species of sharks within twelve miles from the atoll rim of all atolls of the Maldives. Formerly, the moratorium was limited to only seven tourism..  >> Read more

Cost Effective Monitoring of Fishing Vessels

A pilot project on 'Cost Effective Monitoring of Fishing Vessels' is underway. Fourteen vessels will take part in the project where the vessel's route is precisely recorded with the help of GPS systems. Vessels in range of GPRS network will regularly transmit the data to ground based computer servers where it can be acccessed via Internet. The track data, complemented by the fisheries log-book information, allows researchers estimate catch and fishing effort. >> Read more

FADMALDIVES

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Use of anchored fish aggregating devices (FADs) as tools for scientific research is still new. MRC has started a fresh collaboration with French scientists on a project to instrument FADs for studying behaviour of fish aggregations around them. "Listening" devices fixed on FADs in conjunctin with acoustic tagging will be used to study resident times and association of the skipjack around FADs. These are considered important infomation for spatiaal configuraton of FAD networks and assessing the stock status.
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Tuna Tagging Programme

19161230306418tunafishing.jpgMRC is collaborating with Indian Ocean Tuna Commission on their efforts to improve stock assessment of major tuna species. As part of the Indian Ocean Tuna Tagging Programme, MRC is carrying out a Small Scale Tagging Project where yellowfin and skipjack tuna will be released in the Maldives area. This work will complement the EU supported Regional Tuna Tagging Project. »More

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What's New

MEMP Coral Reef Monitoring Programme

Consultation process for the implementation of the WB/MEMP project is underway. The visiting consultant gave talk on the subject on Thursday at MRC. A series of the stakeholder workshops will be held in July/August. More »

Maldives bans shark fishing

The Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture officially announced yesterday the successful passage of the regulation regarding the banning of shark fisheries. The regulation, which comes into effect from March 1, 2009, imposes a complete ban More »

Status of Indian Ocean Tuna Stocks

Every year the Scientific Committee of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission produces Executive Summaries of the status of the Indian Ocean tuna stocks. A revised summary of the yellowfin tuna is given. More »