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PADI meets with Maldivian Ministry to confirm protection of sharks Published 1 hour ago ®, and the dive industry at large, were instrumental in establishing these protections over a decade ago. With concern for the continued protection of sharks in the Maldives, the PADI organisation and Project AWARE ®, along with 200 concerned local and international stakeholders opposing the lifting of the shark fishing ban, called on the government to continue to enforce the legal protections of sharks. PADI staff met with Maldivian Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Resources, and Agriculture Zaha Waheed to reinforce the position of the dive community and critical role sharks play in dive tourism. ....
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 Shark Guardians reports that, contrary to many articles and a current campaign, the Maldives does not plan to lift its current ban on shark fishing. This is based on a meeting with Minister Waheed of the Maldives Majlis, within which she stated that the statements that have been widely reported are being quoted out of context. The Maldives is planning to allow a long-line tuna fishery to open, and she states that the quotes are in relation to shark bycatch from this, and are definitively not a reversal in shark conservation policy. The issue of licenses to foreign for long-line fishing in the country’s outer EEZ had been terminated in 2010, but Longline Fishery Regulation (No. 2014/R-388) has been recently proposed that would reinstate this. Minister Waheed claims that her comments are only in connection with this. ....