IUCN SSC Sciaenidae Red List Authority

2016-2017 Report

Ning Labbish Chao Min Liu

Co-Chairs Mission statement Targets for the quadrennium 2017-2020 Ning Labbish Chao (1) The mission of the IUCN SSC Sciaenidae Red List Barometer of life (2) Min Liu Authority (SRLA) is to complete the assessment Documents review: final revision of global of sciaenid fish worldwide and to update Sciaenidae Red List assessment (members 50). Red List Authority Coordinators taxonomy and ecology information of all 300 Red List: complete submission of global (3) species of Sciaenidae. Ying Giat Seah (Malaysia, Asia) Sciaenidae Red List assessement (members 50). Orangel Aguilera (4) (Brazil, South America) Bolster work at national scales Main activities by Key Priority Area Location/Affiliation (2016 & 2017) Red List: Species Red List Assessment Training Workshop, September 25-29, 2018, University of (1) Bio-Amazonia Conservation International, Capacity building Malaysia, Terengganu, Malaysia (Expecting 50). Brookline, MA, US; National Museum of Marine L Red List Biology, Taiwan, Province of China i. A regional Red List training workshop was Projected impact for the quadrennium (2) Xiamen University, Xiamen, China completed between June and July 2016 at the 2017-2020 (3) FiSHA - School of Fisheries and Aquaculture National Sun Yat-son University, Kaohsiung and Sciences, University of Malaysia, Terengganu, By the end of 2020, we will complete the first National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquari- Malaysia global assessment and will submit it to IUCN for um, Pingtung, Taiwan, and about 100 people (4) Departamento de Biologia Marinha (GBM), final publication. A significant threat to Sciaeni- from four countries were trained. About 70 Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil dae conservation has become more prominent species of Sciaenidae from West Pacific were since 2016 due to the popularity of Sciaenid assessed or re-assessed. (KSR #5) Number of members Maws (dried gas bladder) for food and medicinal use in Asian countries. Larger species of 55 Acknowledgements Sciaenidae were sought to extract their gas We thank the following institutes for hosting Social networks bladders for the luxury market demand. The and supporting our activities, from field col- case of Gulf of California Corvina, Totoaba Facebook: lecting to IUCN Red List workshop: Bio-Amazo- macdonalidi, a Critically Endangered species, has Globle Scienidae Conservation Network nia Conservation International (Boston), Global caused the nearly extinction of the endemic Marine Species Program (Norfolk), National Sen Vaquita, pygmy dolphin. Several large Sciaenidae Yat-sen University (Kaohsiung), National Muse- species of the genus Argyrosomus and um of Marine Biology (Pingtung), Fu-An Tem- Boesemania are greatly sought after in South- ple (Checheng), Dr. Ming Xing Liao (Checheng) east Asian and conservation actions are urgently and Xiamen University (Fujian). We also want to needed. Sciaenid species are popular food fish thank the IUCN Red List instructors from Global and are mostly captured for local food supplies. Marine Species Program. It is a very difficult resource to enforce policies to regulate the capture of threatened species. Summary of activities (2016-2017)

Key Priority Area ratio: 1/7 Key Priority Areas addressed:

• Capacity building (1 activity) Main KSRs addressed: 5 KSR: Key Species Result

Members of Sciaenidae Red List Authority visit Simon Hew’s warehouse, on Sep. 29, 2018, in Kuala Lumpur. Giant croakers are Megalonibea diacanthus at front and Bahaba chaptis in the back. From left to right, Simon Hew, Ning Labbish Chao, Akhilesh K.V., and Orangel Aguilera Photo: Simon Hew