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Tables

The two tables summarize the harvest regimes and factors affecting management of the harvesting regimes.

• Table 1 reviews the likely effects of harvesting the target species:
  • Tables 1 for Animals and Plants encourage Scientific Authority staff to make an initial review, at the national level, of the likely effects of harvesting the target species.
  • Information is sought on the types of harvest, the degree of control over the harvest, the segment of the population harvested, the level of total off-take (for domestic and international use), the reason for the harvest, and the end users of the harvest. Scientific Authorities need to distinguish between regulated and illegal or unmanaged harvesting.
    Consideration of these data will begin or further assist the process of consultation between Scientific and Management Authorities. In the case of some types of harvest, it will also allow the Scientific Authority to advise quickly that harvest is not detrimental to survival.
  Table 2* reviews more general biological and management information:
  • Table 2 encourages Scientific Authorities to review in more depth more general biological and management information including for those species where Table 1 has raised concerns. Information is also sought on management history and planning, harvest management, status of land on which harvesting takes place, capacity for monitoring the harvest, benefits and risks of harvest, levels of strict protection, and the relationship between ranched and captive-bred specimens to those that are wild caught.

*In the completion of Table 2, it should be noted that a high degree of uncertainty should lead a Scientific Authority to conclude that insufficient information exists on which to base a finding of non-detriment. In such a case most Parties should choose not to allow commercial trade until information quality is improved. However, remember that every non-detriment finding decision contains a level of uncertainty and is never absolute. The Scientific Authority must deal with such uncertainty and decide what constitutes an acceptable level of knowledge.