Stage of affairs: April 2005

Development trend: positive.

The President of the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA): a law should be legislated which only allows catching sharks if the whole animal will be brought to the official “fishingport” in Victoria and will be commercialised completely. Finning itself should become illegal and contraventions will be punished.

Furthermore efforts should be done to attract experts knowing how to commercialise skin and other parts of the fish in order to export these parts. There would be a usableness for nearly every part of the shark, like it is practised successfully in other countries but which requires special knowledge.

Source: honorary consul of the Seychelles in Germany, Wolfgang Därr