Goal 2. Maintain or increase current whale populations Indicator Time scale1 Objective Strategy Moderately Moderately Successful Unsuccessful Successful A4 All Zero deliberate whale a) Maintain the No deliberate Few Some High High Medium catches existing whale catch deliberate deliberate deliberate term international reported, whale catch whale catch whale catch legal protection international reported, reported, reported, and measures legal international international international for whales. protection legal legal legal and protection protection protection and b) Report on management and and management infractions to measures management management measures zero whale maintained measures measures decreased. catches. or increased. maintained. maintained or decreased. A5 All Reduce mortality due to a) Evaluate the Pronounced Moderately Moderately Pronounced High species/stocks entanglements in fishing gear. degree of negative Negative positive trend positive trend overlapping trend rates of trend rates of rates of rates of term between fisheries whales whales whales whales and distribution of reported reported reported reported dead populations. dead due to dead due to dead due to due to b) Promote entanglement cooperation with fishermen, the fishing industry and other stakeholders in order to minimize entanglements. c) Develop or
Goal 2. Maintain or increase current whale populations Objective Strategy Indicator Time scale1 Successful Moderately Successful Moderately Unsuccessful A4 All Zero deliberate whale catches a) Maintain the existing international legal protection and measures for whales. b) Report on infractions to zero whale catches. No deliberate whale catch reported, international legal protection and management measures maintained or increased. Few deliberate whale catch reported, international legal protection and management measures maintained. Some deliberate whale catch reported, international legal protection and management measures maintained or decreased. High deliberate whale catch reported, international legal protection and management measures decreased. High Medium term A5 All species/stocks Reduce mortality due to entanglements in fishing gear. a) Evaluate the degree of overlapping between fisheries and distribution of populations. b) Promote cooperation with fishermen, the fishing industry and other stakeholders in order to minimize entanglements. c) Develop or Pronounced negative trend rates of whales reported dead due to Moderately Negative trend rates of whales reported dead due to Moderately positive trend rates of whales reported dead due to Pronounced positive trend rates of whales reported dead due to High term entanglement
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