Published online on 21. March 2012 What is an ‘elasmobranch’? The impact of palaeontology in understanding elasmobranch phylogeny and evolution J. G. Maisey ABSTRACT: The Subclass Elasmobranchii is widely considered nowadays to be the sister group of the Subclass Holocephali, although chimaeroid fishes were originally classified as elasmobranchs along with modern sharks and rays. While
Published online on 21. March 2012 Identification of factors influencing shark catch and mortality in the Marshall Islands tuna longline fishery and management implications Bromhead, D., Clarke, S., Hoyle, S., Muller, B., Sharples, P. and Harley, S. ABSTRACT: Recent average annual catches of sharks by tuna longline vessels fishing in the Republic of the Marshall
Published online on 22. March 2012 A preliminary survey of whale shark Rhincodon typus catch and trade in China: an emerging crisis Li, W., Wang, Y. and Norman, B. ABSTRACT: This study gives an account of spatial and temporal distribution of whale shark Rhincodon typus catch events in China on the basis of historical records
Published online on 22. March 2012 Life history characteristics of a lightly exploited stock of Squalus suckleyi Tribuzio, C. A. and Kruse, G. H. ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to examine the basic life history of a lightly exploited stock of Squalus suckleyi in the Gulf of Alaska to establish a baseline for
Published online on 22. March 2012 Vision in elasmobranchs and their relatives: 21st century advances Lisney, T. J., Theiss, S. M., Collin, S. P. and Hart, N. S. ABSTRACT: This review identifies a number of exciting new developments in the understanding of vision in cartilaginous fishes that have been made since the turn of the
Published online on 20. March 2012 Fisheries, management and conservation of the whale shark Rhincodon typus in Taiwan H. H. Hsu, S. J. Joung, K. M. Liu ABSTRACT: The Taiwanese government introduced a catch-and-report system for the whale shark Rhincodon typus in 2001, and in the following year limited the total allowable catch (TAC) to
Published online on 20. March 2012 Diet and scavenging habits of the smooth skate Dipturus innominatus J. S. Forman and M. R. Dunn ABSTRACT: The diet of smooth skate Dipturus innominatus was determined from examination of stomach contents of 321 specimens of 29·3–152·0 cm pelvic length, sampled from research and commercial trawlers at depths of
Published online on 19. March 2012 Stable isotopes and elasmobranchs: tissue types, methods, applications and assumptions Hussey, N. E., MacNeil, M. A., Olin, J. A., McMeans, B. C., Kinney, M. J., Chapman, D. D. and Fisk, A. T. ABSTRACT: Stable-isotope analysis (SIA) can act as a powerful ecological tracer with which to examine diet, trophic
Published online on 15. March 2012 Biology of the silky shark Carcharhinus falciformis (Carcharhinidae) in the eastern Indian Ocean, including an approach to estimating age when timing of parturition is not well defined Hall, N. G., Bartron, C., White, W. T., Dharmadi and Potter, I. C. ABSTRACT: Biological data were recorded for 1265 silky sharks
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CITES 26th Meeting of Animal Committee in Geneva Twenty-sixth meeting of the Animals Committee Geneva (Switzerland), 15-20 March 2012 Part 1 : The shark-related contributions for each day of the meeting provided by the IISD Reporting Services. Part 2 : The Shark Working Group Report published by CITES. PART 1: Thursday, 15 March 2012
Whale Shark dies: Kommetjie NSRI helps with carcass News Release by the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI), 19. March 2012 SCARBOROUGH Sunday 18th March 2012. At 12h30 on Sunday 18th March NSRI Kommetjie were called out to assist from KEAG (The Kommetjie Environmental Action Group) and the Department of Environment – Oceans and Coasts
RDA sides with three shark dive operators Published by Port Lincoln Times, 20. March 2012 REGIONAL Development Australia (RDA) Whyalla and Eyre Peninsula has lobbied the state government to allow three local shark cage divers to keep their licences instead of the two the government has proposed as part of a change to the
Report To Subcouncil South Peninsula: Sub Council 19 SUBJECT Proposed trial installation of an exclusion net as an additional shark safety measure at Fish Hoek Beach PDF – DOWNLOAD