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The Foundation supported a project initiated by Dr. E. Ritter up until the third quarter of 2001 with a total of CHF 94,000. Up until this time no concrete results in the two projects on shark conditioning and shark migrations could be presented, despite various requests. Except for a publication which did not directly relate to the projects, no additional scientific work was published in this area.
The Board of Trustees thus decided to stop supporting the two projects due to lack of results. Ritter was asked to return the underwater camera and the Foundation's VEMCO tracking material so that they could be used in other projects.
Total investments: approx. CHF 94,000
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Inventory of the fauna in the Marine National Park in Walker's Cay by Dr. E. Ritter, with special consideration to sharks.
The project was ended by the Board of Trustees due to lack of results.
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The bereaved family of a diver who lost his life in a tragic diving accident was asked to invest the money collected at the funeral for a whale shark protection project. Since the Foundation has no such project, the double amount was transferred to the Shark Research Institute in Princeton, N.J. (USA), for whale shark activities.
Total investment: For the present a single investment in 2002 of approx. CHF 3,700
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In the scope of cooperation with Mark Grace of NOAA/NMSF a research project for the identification of various deep-sea sharks in the Gulf of Mexico was supported.
Mrs. Claudia Bänsch delivered tissue samples for the Foundation's shark tissue collection, a research report as well as photographic material from her stay between October and November 2002.
Single investment 2002: approx. CHF 2’500
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In January 1999 the Shark Foundation held discussions with the responsible people in South Africa and decided – in cooperation with the Department for Ocean Fishing, the University of Stellenbosch and the South African Museum – to submit two projects for the protection of white sharks in South Africa. Both projects were accepted on March 3, 1999, with work beginning in the summer of 1999. The projects were for the most part carried out by employees of the Shark Foundation and the University of Zurich.
Despite several inquiries with the South African authorities no serious project cooperation could be achieved with them. In addition we lost our direct contact to Stellenbosch through the tragic death of Dr. D. Seady (University Stellenbosch).
At the end of 2000 the Board of Trustees thus decided to end the project. The CHF 40,000 set aside for these projects will flow into other projects.
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