Target 6: Fisheries and hunting have no significant direct or indirect adverse impacts on migratory species, their habitats or their migration routes, and impacts of fisheries and hunting are within safe ecological limits.

►    The  CMS COP Resolution 12.22 on Bycatch (Manila 2017 )includes:

Technological and Financial Assistance

 21. Calls upon Parties to support the participation of representatives of the Secretariat and Scientific Council in relevant international fora through voluntary contributions;

22. Calls upon all donor countries to consider helping developing countries acquire and use relevant technology, and with appropriate education and training of fishermen;

23. Further encourages Parties to provide financial and technical support to developing countries for the mitigation of bycatch of species listed in the Appendices of CMS, focusing on work with indigenous and local communities that depend on fisheries for their livelihoods;

24. Calls upon Parties and invites other governments, partner organizations and the private sector to provide voluntary contributions for independent research on the effectiveness and further improvement of bycatch mitigation measures;

 

►    The MoU concerning the conservation of the Manatee and small cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia: Action Plan for the conservation of small cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia includes:

Theme 4 – Threat Reduction:

Objective 2 - Where it is legal, limit any direct take to sustainable levels:

4.2.1) Discourage targeted hunting of small cetaceans, and promote alternatives

Theme 8 – Tourism Based on Small Cetaceans:

Objective 1 - Ensure best practice management and maximise educational and economic values of tourism based on small cetaceans in the western African region:

8.1.1) Develop a mechanism to document industry growth (building on Western African tourism organisations/IFAW etc. work).

8.1.5) Ensure socio-economic benefits of whale and dolphin watching reach local communities.