FS17_March 2010_IUCN Red List

Summary

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM provides an assessment of a species’ probability of extinction. There were approximately 45,000 assessed species on the 2008 IUCN Red List, of which 6% are marine species. The 15,000 marine fish species, habitat forming species such as sea grasses, mangroves and corals, as well as molluscs and echinoderms, are considered priorities for future assessment. This note uses the 2008 IUCN Red List to look at how species are evaluated under the IUCN assessment process, the criteria used and how the IUCN analysis compares to other fisheries assessments.

Publication Reference No.

FS17.02-10

Publication date

01 March 2010