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The Hawaii-based Longline Fishery – 3rd quarter of 2011
The Hawaii-based Longline Logbook Summary Report July-September 2011 Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Fisheries Monitoring Branch This report summarizes data on fish catch and fishing effort by Hawaii-based longline vessels during the third quarter of 2011 (Q3-2011). Results are based on the date gear was hauled, as reported by vessel operators to the National Marine
Ecuador Landings in September 2011
Ecuador: Elasmobranch Landings in September 2011.The total landing of sharks and rays was determined to be 1756,35 tons.This result represents an increase of ca. 205 percent in relation to August 2011.
MSC Board statement on shark finning
Published on 18 Dec, 2011 at 14:47 in Conservation & Fishery, Fishery Management | Viewed times | No Comments
News Release by the Marine Stewardship Council, 16. December 2011 At its December 2011 meeting held in Berlin, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Board of Trustees resolved that fisheries engaged in shark finning would not be eligible for certification to the MSC standard for sustainable fisheries. Shark finning is defined as the practice of removing
Spanish fisherman captures rare shark
Published on 18 Dec, 2011 at 14:37 in General News | Viewed times | No Comments
Helmut Nickel, Shark Year Magazine, 18. December 2011 Date: reported on 10. December 2011. Location: Northwestern Spain. Species: Goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni). The Spanish trawler ‘Gonzacove Dos’, which is based at the port of Marín (Pontevedra Province in Galicia), caught this specimen in the neighboring Portuguese waters. The source is reporting that the goblin shark
Study of Skates and Sharks Questions Assumptions about “Essential” Genes
Published on 15 Dec, 2011 at 18:34 in Research | Viewed times | No Comments
Press Release by the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), 15. December 2011 Biologists have long assumed that all animals with jaws and spinal columns possess nearly identical genes that regulate critical aspects of their embryological development. But a paper in the December 16 issue of Science by Benjamin King of the Mount Desert Island
A Natural Deletion of the HoxC Cluster in Elasmobranch Fishes
Published on 16. December 2011 Benjamin L. King, J. Andrew Gillis, Heather R. Carlisle, Randall D. Dahn. ABSTRACT: Hox proteins are a metazoan-specific family of transcription factors that are required for developmental patterning. The genomic arrangement of Hox genes into four paralogous clusters is a primitive feature of jawed vertebrates. By using high-throughput sequencing, we
Thresher Shark Fishing in Nusa Penida
Published on 15 Dec, 2011 at 14:27 in Documents / PDF, Front Page, Publications | Viewed times | No Comments
Bali Shark Project Thresher Shark Fishing in Nusa Penida 76 Females harvested with 69 pregnant with two babies each - babies discarded. Bali Shark Project Thresher Shark Fishing
New Book on Great White Sharks in Mediterranean Sea
Published on 15 Dec, 2011 at 13:34 in General News | Viewed times | No Comments
Mediterranean Great White Sharks A Comprehensive Study Including All Recorded Sightings Alessandro De Maddalena and Walter Heim Foreword by Marie Levine Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-5889-9 EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8815-5 ca. 90 photos, maps, bibliography, index softcover (7 x 10) 2012 Not Yet Published, Available Fall/Winter 2011 About the Book The great white shark has been haunting the
Permanent magnets as elasmobranch bycatch reduction devices
Analysis of permanent magnets as elasmobranch bycatch reduction devices in hook-and-line and longline trials Craig P. O’Connell, Daniel C. Abel, Eric M. Stroud, Patrick H. Rice. ABSTRACT: Previous studies indicate that elasmobranch fishes (sharks, skates and rays) detect the Earth’s geomagnetic field by indirect magnetoreception through electromagnetic induction, using their ampullae of Lorenzini. Applying this
Bomb radiocarbon dating of sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus
Bomb radiocarbon and tag-recapture dating of sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) Allen H. Andrews, Lisa J. Natanson, Lisa A. Kerr, George H. Burgess, Gregor M. Cailliet. ABSTRACT: The sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) was the cornerstone species of western North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico large coastal shark fisheries until 2008 when they were allocated to a
Mississauga delays shark fin ban
Published on 14 Dec, 2011 at 20:26 in Conservation & Fishery, Shark Trade | Viewed times | No Comments
By Megan O’Toole, National Post, 14. December 2011 Mississauga is postponing its ban on shark-fin products until next summer, a move that puts the city more closely in line with neighbouring Toronto. In October, capping off weeks of debate over the potential negative impacts on local Chinese business owners, Mississauga council passed a bylaw to
Distribution and size composition of the North Pacific spiny dogfish
Published online on 22. November 2011 New data on the distribution and size composition of the North Pacific spiny dogfish Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1854) Alexei M. Orlov, Vadim F. Savinykh, Eugeny F. Kulish and Dmitry V. Pelenev ABSTRACT: The results of long-term research on the spatial and vertical distribution of the North Pacific spiny dogfish
Taxonomy of two species of dogfish in Tunisian waters
Published online on 22. November 2011 Taxonomic research on Squalus megalops (Macleay, 1881) and Squalus blainvillei (Risso, 1827) (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae) in Tunisian waters (central Mediterranean Sea) Sondes Marouani, Raja Chaâba, Hasna Kadri, Bechir Saidi, Abderrahmen Bouain, Ferruccio Maltagliati, Peter Last, Bernard Séret and Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai ABSTRACT: Two species of spurdog of the genus Squalus