Top

Published in:

2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

10. Elasmobranchs Consumption in Brazil: Impacts and Consequences

Authors : Hugo Bornatowski, Raul R. Braga, Rodrigo P. Barreto

Published in: Advances in Marine Vertebrate Research in Latin America

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config

AI-assisted search

Off

Abstract

Commercial fisheries struggle to apply regulatory and legal mechanisms that depend on reliable species-specific data, and the shark industry faces an even greater obstacle to transparency with sellers changing product names to overcome consumer resistance. Fraudulent representation or mislabeling of fish, including sharks and rays, has been recorded in some countries. In Brazil, for instance, sharks are sold as “cação” – a popular name attributed for any shark or ray species; however, according to consumer’s knowledge of a large city of southern Brazil, more than 70% of them are often unaware that “cação” refers to sharks. Today, the Brazilian market has a high interest in encouraging people to eat “cação” meat, mainly because of their attractive prices. This raise a number of questions, mainly in respect to the knowledge of people/consumers, as what are they eating, and why the Brazilian meat market has grown so much in the last years.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

previous chapter Using Chemical Elements to the Study of Trophic and Spatial Ecology in Marine Mammals of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean

next chapter West Indian Manatee Trichechus manatus in South America: Distribution, Ecology and Health Assessment

Amorim AF, Arfelli CA, Fagundes L (1998) Pelagic elasmobranchs caught by longliners off southern Brazil during 1974–97: an overview. Mar Freshw Res 49:621–632CrossRef

Barbuto M, Galimberti A, Ferri E, Labra M, Malandra R, Galli P, Casiraghi M (2010) DNA barcoding reveals fraudulent substitutions in shark seafood products: the Italian case of “palombo” (Mustelus spp.) Food Res Int 43:376–381CrossRef

Barreto RP (2015) Historia de vida e vulnerabilidade dos tubarões oceânicos do Atlantico Sul. PhD Thesis, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil

Barreto RR, Lessa RP, Hazin FH, Santana FM (2011) Age and growth of the blacknose shark, Carcharhinus acronotus (Poey 1860) off the northeastern Brazilian coast. Fish Res 110:170–176CrossRef

Barreto R, Ferretti F, Mills J, Amorim A, Andrade H, Worm B, Lessa R (2016) Trends in the exploitation of South Atlantic shark populations. Conserv Biol 30:792–804CrossRefPubMed

Baum JK, Myers RA, Kehler DG, Worm B, Harley SJ, Doherty PA (2003) Collapse and conservation of shark populations in the northwest Atlantic. Science 299:389–392CrossRefPubMed

Bonfil R (1994) Overview of world elasmobranch fisheries. Fisheries technical papers. Rome

Bornatowski H, Vitule JRS, Abilhoa V, Corrêa MFM (2011) Unconventional fishing for large sharks in the state of Paraná southern Brazil: a note of concern. J Appl Ichthyol 27:1108–1111CrossRef

Bornatowski H, Braga RR, Vitule JRS (2013) Shark mislabeling threatens biodiversity. Science 340:923CrossRefPubMed

Bornatowski H, Braga RR, Vitule JRS (2014) Threats to sharks in a developing country: the need for effective and simple conservation measures. Natureza Conserv 12(1):11–18CrossRef

Bornatowski H, Braga RR, Kalinowski C, Vitule JRS (2015) “Buying a Pig in a Poke”: the problem of Elasmobranch meat consumption in Southern Brazil. Ethnobiol Lett 6(1):196–202CrossRef

Brazil (1990) Lei n. 8.078, de 11 de setembro de 1990. Dispõe Sobre a Proteção do Consumidor e dá Outras Providências. Diário Oficial da República Federativa do Brasil, Brasília, DF, 12 set. 1990. Available at: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/ leis/l8078.htm. Accessed 15 Sep 2016

Brazil (2014) Ministério do Meio Ambiente. Portarias 445, de 17 de Dezembro de 2014, Diário Oficial da União http://pesquisaingovbr/imprensa/jsp/visualiza/indexjsp?data=18/12/2014&jornal=1&pagina=110&totalArquivos=144. Accessed 18 Oct 2016

Camhi M, Fowler S, Musick J, Bräutigam A, Fordham S (1998) Sharks and their relatives, ecology and conservation. Occas. Paper IUCN Spec. Surv. Comm. 39 p

Carvalho DC, Palhares RM, Drummond MG, Frigo TB (2015) DNA barcoding identification of commercialized seafood in south Brazil: a governmental regulatory forensic program. Food Control 50:784–788CrossRef

Clarke S, Yokawa K, Matsunaga H, Nakano H (2011) Analysis of North Pacific shark data from Japanese commercial longline and research/training vessel records. Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, Pohnpei, Micronesia

Cortés E, Brooks L, Scott G (2002) Stock assessment of large coastal sharks in the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Sustainable Fisheries Division Contribution SFD-2/03-177

Dent F, Clarke S (2015) State of the global market for shark products. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture technical paper no. 590. FAO, Rome

Dias ACL, Guimarães JRD, Malm O, Costa PAS (2008) Mercúrio total em músculo de cação Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758) e de espadarte Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758, na costa sul-sudeste do Brasil e suas implicações para a saúde pública. Cad Saúde Pública 24(9):2063–2070CrossRefPubMed

Domingo A, Forselledo R, Miller P, Jiménez S, Mas F, Pons M (2014) General description of longline fisheries. ICCAT manual, 312. Available from http://wwwiccates/Documents/SCRS/Manual/CH3/CHAP_3_1_2_LL_ENGpdf. Assessed 05 October 2016

Dulvy NK, Harisson LR, Carlson JK et al (2014) Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays. elife 3:e00590CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Escobar-Sánchez O, Galván-Magaña F, Rosíles-Martínez R (2011) Biomagnification of mercury and selenium in blue shark Prionace glauca from the Pacific Ocean off Mexico. Biol Trace Elem Res 144:550–559CrossRefPubMed

Estrella F, Raposo G, Pascolli J, Gonzalez JG, Motta FS, Moura RL (2014) Comercialização de pescado nas cidades de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. https://wwwsosmaorgbr/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ESTUDO-PESCADO-2014_Relatorio-Finalpdf. Assessed 02 Nov 2016

Ferretti F, Worm B, Britten GL, Heithaus MR, Lotze HK (2010) Patterns and ecosystem consequences of shark declines in the ocean. Ecol Lett 13:1055–1071PubMed

Garcia VB, Lucifora LO, Myers RA (2008) The importance of habitat and life history to extinction risk in sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras. Proc R Soc B 275:83–89CrossRefPubMed

Hazin FHV, Broadhurst MK, Amorim AF, Arfelli CA, Domingo A (2008) Catches of pelagic sharks by subsurface longline fisheries in the South Atlantic Ocean during the last century: a review of available data with emphasis on Uruguay and Brazil. In: Camhi MD, Pickitch EA (eds) Sharks of the open ocean: biology, fisheries and conservation. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp 213–227

Holden MJ (1974) Problems in the rational exploitation of elasmobranch populations and some suggested solutions. In: Harden-Jones FR (ed) Sea fisheries research. Elek Science, London, pp 117–138

Hutchings JA (2000) Collapse and recovery of marine fishes. Nature 406:882–885CrossRefPubMed

Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) (2016) Avaliação do risco de extinção dos elasmobrânquios e quimeras no Brasil: 2010–2012. Available in: http://www.icmbio.gov.br/cepsul/especies-ameacadas.html. Accessed 20 Oct 2016

Jacquet JL, Pauly D (2008) Trade secrets: renaming and mislabeling of seafood. Mar Policy 32:309–318CrossRef

Lamendin R, Miller K, Ward RD (2015) Labelling accuracy in Tasmanian seafood: an investigation using DNA barcoding. Food Control 47:436–443CrossRef

Lessa RP, Santana FM, Rincón G, Gadig OBF, El-Deir ACA (1999) Biodiversidade de elasmobrânquios do Brasil. Recife Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA), Projeto de Conservação e Utilização Sustentável da Diversidade Biológica Brasileira (PROBIO)

Lessa RP, Batista V, Santana FM (2016) Close to extinction? The collapse of the endemic daggernose shark (Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus) off Brazil. Global Ecol Conserv 7:70–81

Lopez SA, Abarca NL, Meléndez R (2013) Heavy metal concentrations of two highly migratory sharks (Prionace glauca and Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Southeastern Pacific waters: comments on public health and conservation. Trop Conserv Sci 6:126–137CrossRef

Mace GM, Collar NJ, Gaston KJ, Hilton-Taylor C, Akcakaya HR, Leader-Williams N, Milner-Gulland EJ, Stuart SN (2008) Quantification of extinction risk: IUCN’s system for classifying threatened species. Conserv Biol 22:1424–1442CrossRefPubMed

Musick JA (1999) Ecology and conservation of long-lived marine animals. In: Musick JA (ed) Life in the slow lane: ecology and conservation of long-lived marine animals. American Fisheries Society Symposium, Bethesda, pp 1–10

Nelson JS (2006) Fishes of the World, 4th edn. Wiley, New York

Oceana (2016) Seafood frau campaign. http://oceanaorg/our-campaigns/seafood_fraud/campaign. Assessed 2 Oct 2016

Palmeira MCA, Rodrigues-Filho LFS, Sales JBL, Vallinoto M, Schneider H, Sampaio I (2013) Commercialization of a critically endangered species (largetooth sawfish, Pristis perotteti) in fish markets of northern Brazil: authenticity by DNA analysis. Food Control 34:249–252CrossRef

Pethybridge H, Cossa D, Butler CV (2009) Mercury in 16 Demersal sharks from Southeast Australia: biotic and abiotic sources of variation and consumer health implications. Mar Freshw Res 68:18–26

Priede IG, Froese R, Bailey DM, Bergstad OA, Collins MA, Dyb JE, Henriques C, Jones EG, King N (2006) The absence of sharks from abyssal regions of the world’s oceans. Proc R Soc B 273:1435–1441CrossRefPubMedPubMedCentral

Sampson GS, Sanchirico JN, Roheim CA et al (2015) Sustainability: secure sustainable seafood from developing countries. Science 348(6234):504–506CrossRefPubMed

Smith PJ, Benson PG (2001) Biochemical identification of shark fins and fillets from the coastal fisheries in New Zealand. Fish Bull 99(2):351–355

Smith SE, Au DW, Show C (1998) Intrinsic rebound potentials of 26 species of Pacific sharks. Mar Freshw Res 49:663–678CrossRef

Snelson FF Jr, Roman BL, Burgess GH (2008) The reproductive biology of pelagic elasmobranchs. In: Camhi MD, Pikitch EK, Babcock EA (eds) Sharks of the open ocean: biology, fisheries and conservation. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp 24–53CrossRef

Stevens JD, Bonfil R, Dulvy NK, Walker PA (2000) The effects of fishing on sharks, rays, and chimeras (chondrichthyans), and the implications for marine ecosystems. ICES J Mar Sci 57:476–494CrossRef

Stobutzki IC, Miller MJ, Heales DS, Brewer DT (2002) Sustainability of elasmobranchs caught as bycatch in a tropical prawn (shrimp) trawl fishery. Fish Bull 100:800–821

UNIVALI/CTTMar (2011) Boletim estatístico da pesca industrial de Santa Catarina – Ano 2010. Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar, Itajaí

Vannuccini S (1999) Shark utilization and trade. Food and Agriculture Organization technical paper, n.389, Rome, Italy

Von der Heyden S, Barendse J, Seebregts AJ, Matthee CA (2010) Misleading the masses: detection of mislabelled and substituted frozen fish products in South Africa. ICES J Mar Sci 67:176–185CrossRef

Vooren CM (1997) Demersal elasmobranchs. In: Seeliger U, Odebrechet C, Castello JP (eds) Subtropical convergence environments. The coast and sea in the southwestern Atlantic. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 141–146

Walker T (1998) Can shark resources be harvested sustainably? A question revisited with a review of shark fisheries. Mar Freshw Res 49:553–572CrossRef

WildAid (2007) The end of the line? Global threats to sharks. http://www.wildaid.org. Accessed 10 Mar 2015

Wong EHK, Hanner R (2008) DNA barcoding detects market substitution in North American seafood. Food Res Int 41:828–837CrossRef

Title: Elasmobranchs Consumption in Brazil: Impacts and Consequences
Authors: Hugo Bornatowski
Raul R. Braga
Rodrigo P. Barreto
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Advances in Marine Vertebrate Research in Latin America
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-56984-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-56985-7

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56985-7_10