Shark attack survivor’s emotional meeting

Ecuador Landings in November 2011

Sharks and Rays caught by Ecuador in November 2011   Helmut Nickel, Shark Year Magazine, 24. January 2012 Republic of Ecuador Fishing Report November 2011 Landing of Sharks and Rays   In November 2011, the estimated total landing of sharks and rays was reported to be 752.99 tons, representing an increase of 31.62 percent in

2012 US Atlantic Shark Commercial Fishing Season

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; 2012 Atlantic Shark Commercial Fishing Season AGENCY:National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Final rule; fishing season notification. January 24, 2012 SUMMARY: This final rule establishes the opening dates and adjusts quotas for the 2012 fishing season for the Atlantic commercial shark fisheries. Quotas were

Dead basking shark found on beach in Canada

Dead basking shark found on beach in Canada. Reported on 23. January 2012. Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The specimen washed up near Locke’s Island at the head of Jordan Bay last week.

Influence of intra-specific predator-prey interactions on juvenile lemon sharks

Published online on 20. January 2012. Deep danger: intra-specific predation risk influences habitat use and aggregation formation of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris Tristan L. Guttridge, Samuel H. Gruber, Bryan R. Franks, Steven T. Kessel, Katie S. Gledhill, Jen Uphill, Jens Krause, David W. Sims ABSTRACT: Non-consumptive or risk effects imposed by predators can influence

Effects of an extreme temperature event on bull sharks

Not published yet Effects of an extreme temperature event on the behavior and age structure of an estuarine top predator, Carcharhinus leucas Philip Matich, Michael R. Heithaus ABSTRACT: The frequency of extreme environmental events is predicted to increase in the future. Understanding the short- and long-term impacts of these extreme events on large-bodied predators will

Mercury in deepwater chondrichthyans off southeastern Australia

Not published yet. Trophic structure and biomagnification of mercury in an assemblage of deepwater chondrichthyans collected off southeastern Australia H. Pethybridge, E. C. V. Butler, D. Cossa, R. Daley, A. Boudou ABSTRACT: Stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) were used to evaluate trophic structure and mercury biomagnification in an assemblage of 16

Managing top predators: Reef shark fisheries

Living with high concentrations of urea: They can!

Published in Jan 2012 Francesca Trischitta, Caterina Faggio, Agata Torre ABSTRACT: Marine elasmobranchs maintain their body fluid isoosmotic or slightly hyperosmotic to the external medium by the retention of large urea concentrations. This review focuses on the strategies adopted by these fishes to maintain a large outwardly direct concentration gradient of this osmolyte minimizing the

Identification Guide to SHARKS of Mississippi

By Dr. Eric Hoffmayer, Jim Franks and John Shelley The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Center for Fisheries Research and Development PDF – Download      

Fishery Union questions ban on skate fishing in Portugal

European Parliament Parliamentary Questions 18 January 2012 Question for written answer to the Commission Rule 117 João Ferreira (GUE/NGL) Subject: Banning of yellow skate fishing in Portugal In Portugal, the Southern Fishing Workers’ Union has recently drawn attention to the issue of the ban on catching skate and the consequences that this ban is having on

Potential New World Record Leopard Shark

Helmut Nickel, Shark Year Magazine, 22. January 2012 On December 31, a potential new International Game Fish Association (IGFA) world record leopard shark Triakis semifasciata was landed by Maria de la Luz Johnson in San Diego Bay, California. She used a dead surfperch as bait. The record catch measured 162.56 cm in length and weighed

Tiger shark mauls snorkel instructor in western Australia

Checklist of Sharks of the Persian Gulf

Published on 20. January 2012 Sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf: a first annotated checklist (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) Alec B.M. Moore, Robert D. Ward and Richard Peirce. ABSTRACT: The first evidence-based checklist of sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf is presented based on appraisal of primary literature and new data, including identifications verified by COI barcoding.

EU project to protect threatened sharks

Published by World Fishing & Aquaculture, 18. January 2012 Open-ocean shark populations throughout the world are dropping, not only due to overfishing but also from inadvertent captures by fishermen in search of tuna. In an effort to protect these vulnerable animals, the MADE project receives €2,980,000 in EU funding and is working to develop ways