NESP MB Project A11: Shark Action Plan Policy and Assessment Reports

The NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub project "Shark action plan" produced two major publications to strengthen shark, ray, and chimaera conservation in Australia. The 2018 policy report reviewed extinction risk and threats, and the 2021 Action Plan assessed the national extinction risk of 328 Australian species using IUCN criteria. These outputs provide a national benchmark for tracking species status changes and support threatened species listing and fisheries management.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking species status changes over time based on the national extinction risk assessments.
• Identifying priority species for further research based on the identified data gaps and assessment needs.
• Informing conservation policy and management actions based on the recommended conservation objectives for each species.
• Supporting fisheries bycatch mitigation strategies based on the analysis of common threats to sharks, rays, and chimaeras.

Strengths

• Assesses a specific number of species: 328 shark, ray, and chimaera species.
• Provides a defined temporal scope for the project work: 2017-2021.
• Delivered two concrete, named outputs: the Shark Action Plan Policy Report 2018 and the Action Plan for Australian Sharks and Rays 2021.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Research project output from the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub.

Time Range

2017-2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-09 01:58:32.553626; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia