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The fourth SAPPHIRE Project Steering Committee (PSC) meeting was held to:
i) Review the SAPPHIRE project progress and expenditure to date,
ii) Approve the project’s workplan and budget for 2022,
iii) Appraise the ongoing mid-term review,
iv) Review the progress in the development of the regional Ocean Governance Strategy, and
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This Report reveals the main threats facing chondrichthyans in the Nairobi Convention area of the WIO to include: overexploitation and excessive mortality of chondrichthyan (particularly threatened) species; inadequate national-level policy and legislation in most countries; inadequate protection afforded by existing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) throughout the WIO; poor implementation of management and conservation measures defined under Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs); high levels of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) chondrichthyan fishing and trade (facilitated by
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