{"id":5074,"date":"2014-01-02T14:27:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bvblog.wpengine.com\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2014-06-25T12:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T11:47:56","slug":"notes-nosy-mitseo-madagascar-legacy-demand-shark-fin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/en\/notes-nosy-mitseo-madagascar-legacy-demand-shark-fin\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Nosy Mitseo, Madagascar: the legacy of the demand for shark fin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Madagascar the traditional and artisanal fishery are defined by the type of boat and size of motor you use. Whilst this study focuses on sharks landed in the traditional fishery (non-motorised local sailing pirogues) which dominates south west Madagascar, artisanal fishing (boats with less than 50HP engine) is more commonly found in the north west and north of Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, two colleagues have photographed and filmed shark fishing across the traditional, artisanal and industrial fishing sectors along much of Madagascar\u2019s western coastline. Here they share some photos and notes from an artisanal boat targeting sharks around the remote Nosy Mitseo archipelago, north Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueventures.org\/blue-forests-team\/garth-cripps-phd.html\">Dr. Garth Cripps<\/a> writes:\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe photos show catch from the two nets the shark fishermen used: the first was a\u00a0<em>ZDZD<\/em>\u00a0or<em>GTZ<\/em>, a nylon monofilament gillnet that they targeted small sharks and guitarfish with; the second was a\u00a0<em>bemaso<\/em>, a bottom set gillnet made of nylon cord and of a large mesh size, which they used to target large sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen placed the\u00a0<em>GTZ<\/em>\u00a0overnight in a channel that led from deep water to an extensive, shallower reef system fringing the isles.\u00a0 With the changing of the tides, the current through this channel was extremely strong and it was a logical passage that predators would have to take to reach the reefs at night.\u00a0 One haul of the net brought in about ten small or juveniles sharks, three guitarfish and at least fifteen rays, along with a handful of fish.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5075\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5075\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5075 lazyload\" alt=\"GHC30211619072013 (630x420)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2014\/01\/GHC30211619072013-630x420-385x256.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 385px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 385\/256;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharks and guitarfish landed in the GTZ net \u00a9 Garth Cripps<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5076\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5076\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5076 lazyload\" alt=\"GHC24021219072013 (630x420)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2014\/01\/GHC24021219072013-630x420-385x256.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 385px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 385\/256;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view of sharks and guitarfish landed in the GTZ net \u00a9 Garth Cripps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fishermen placed the\u00a0<em>bemaso<\/em>\u00a0net in deeper water, but still close to offshore reefs.\u00a0 They had located these using an old French bathymetric chart from the early 1900\u2019s, brass calipers, a pencil and a cheap yellow GPS. We were in the water filming when they pulled this net in.\u00a0 Trying not to get swept away by the current or tangled in the net \u2013 and the fact that the crew butchered the catch as soon as they\u2019d pulled in the net \u2013 all meant that I lost count of what was caught.\u00a0 But there were a number of mantas, a green turtle and a lemon shark (whose fins had no value and would be kept only for its meat).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5077\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5077\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5077 lazyload\" title=\"A turtle is landed in the Bemaso net\" alt=\"GHC24071819072013 (630x420)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2014\/01\/GHC24071819072013-630x420-385x256.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 385px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 385\/256;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A turtle is landed in the bemaso net \u00a9 Garth Cripps<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5078\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5078\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5078 lazyload\" alt=\"GHC02421627052013 (630x420)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2014\/01\/GHC02421627052013-630x420-385x256.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 385px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 385\/256;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rays are landed in the bemaso net \u00a9 Garth Cripps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fishermen butchered the catches on the boat, and were going to salt and dry the fins and meat for sale back on the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>These fishermen were there to catch sharks and had spent the last twenty years fishing most of the length of Madagascar\u2019s west coast between Morondava and Antsiranana (Diego-Suarez).\u00a0 But all agreed that the catches of adult sharks and guitarfish had dropped over the last few years; during our time with them they caught no adult sharks with fins of value.<\/p>\n<p>The price of shark fins in Madagascar has also more than halved since 2011. How do these artisanal fishers keep going?\u00a0 The crew earn no wages, just rice everyday and a share of the eventual profits.\u00a0 So the only expenses the boss has are rice and diesel for the\u00a0<em>tef tef<\/em>\u00a0motor.\u00a0 He is able to cover these by selling the ray meat.\u00a0 He has invested significant capital in the boat and cannot stop fishing.\u00a0 Together, these factors have two perverse effects: the length of nets has increased dramatically (labour to pull them in costs essentially nothing); and the boss has nothing to loose by leaving out the nets for longer periods \u2013 two nights, sometimes three or even four (diesel is an expense but the longer the net is in the water, the more it catches, and shark and particularly guitarfish fins seem to keep long enough in the water to allow this).\u00a0 Most of the fish in these nets were rotting and disintegrating off the nets as they were pulled in.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5079\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5079\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5079 lazyload\" alt=\"GHC14562021072013 (630x420)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2014\/01\/GHC14562021072013-630x420-385x256.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 385px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 385\/256;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The crew of artisanal vessels often earn no wages, just a share of eventual profits \u00a9Garth Cripps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The ghostly shape of yet another struggling ray being pulled up from the depths &#8211; to be sold in local markets for a fraction of the cost of chicken or beef &#8211; was a bleak legacy of the Asian demand for shark fins in Madagascar.\u00a0 The marker buoys of the shark nets were made from old palm oil drums imported from Indonesia.\u00a0 Even in remote Madagascar, the survival of marine creatures is pitted against global markets and fishermen\u2019s daily struggle to earn a living.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5080\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5080\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5080 lazyload\" alt=\"GHC42172121072013 (630x420)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2014\/01\/GHC42172121072013-630x420-385x256.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"256\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 385px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 385\/256;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ray being pulled up, to be sold in local markets for meat \u00a9Garth Cripps<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>This blog first appeared on Blue Ventures&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/saveourseas.com\/projects\/mobile_sharks_mg\/notes_from_nosy_mitseo_madagascar_the_legacy_of_the_demand_for_shark_fin\">Save Our Seas Foundation<\/a> project page.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Madagascar the traditional and artisanal fishery are defined by the type of boat and size of motor you use. 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