Shark Fisheries Management (High seas) Regulations, 2015.

These regulations, consisting of 8 sections and one Schedule, aim at implementing conservation and management measures adopted by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission. They specify that no person engaged in fishing operations in high seas shall catch any of the species specified in the Schedule, except for the collection of museum, biological sampling for taxonomic study and research purposes by the scientific observer on board. No person engaged in fishing operations in high seas shall: remove on board a local fishing boat the fins of any shark caught by such local fishing boat and discard carcass of such shark of which fins have been removed; retain on board, transship or land fins of any shark unless such fins are naturally attached to the body of such shark, transship, land, store, sell or offer for sale any shark species specified below: 1. Shark species of the Family Alopidae. Alopias vulpinus (Thresher shark); Alopias superciliosus (Big-eye thresher shark); Alopias pelagicus (Pelagic theresher shark); 2. Carcharhinus Iongimanus (Oceanic white-tip shark); 3. Rhincodon typus (Whale shark).