First record of long nose chimaera from Bay of Bengal

Published online on 04. April 2012 First record of long nose chimaera Neoharriotta pinnata (Chondrichthys: Chimaeriformes: Rhinochimaeridae), from Bay of Bengal, India (north-eastern Indian Ocean) T.V. Suresh and S.M. Raffi ABSTRACT: Our paper describes the first record of Neoharriotta pinnata from the Bay of Bengal region of the Indian Ocean. A single specimen of a

On the by-catch of two porbeagle sharks in the Adriatic Sea

Published online on 07. June 2012 On the by-catch of two porbeagle sharks Lamna nasus in the central Adriatic Sea Umberto Scacco, Ivan Consalvo, Stefano DiMuccio and Leonardo Tunesi ABSTRACT: In July 2010 and August 2011 a subadult and an adult porbeagle shark Lamna nasus were respectively caught as by-catch by an artisanal fishery boat

First record of the pelagic thresher shark from the Lakshadweep Sea India

Published online on 27. March 2012 First record of the pelagic thresher shark Alopias pelagicus (Pisces: Alopiiformes: Alopiidae) from the Lakshadweep Sea, India K.V. Aneesh Kumar, S. Paresh Khanolkar, P. Pravin, B. Meenakumari and E.V. Radhakrishnan ABSTRACT: The pelagic thresher shark Alopias pelagicus is a large, wide-ranging Indo-Pacific Ocean pelagic shark. In this paper, the

Record of the goblin shark from Brazil

Published online on 08. May 2012 Record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni (Chondrichthyes: Lamniformes: Mitsukurinidae) from the south-western Atlantic Getulio Rincon, Teodoro Vaske Júnior and Otto B.F. Gadig ABSTRACT: This paper reports the first well-documented specimen of the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni in the south-western Atlantic, based on a mature male measuring 3152 mm

Brett T Bailey Mako Rodeo 2012

11th Annual Brett T Bailey Mako Rodeo Location: Hoffman’s Marina, Brielle, New Jersey, USA. Date: 15. – 16. June 2012 Tournament Results: Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) Division: Weight: 224.5 lbs Boat: Sweet Melissa                   ———————————————————– Weight: 214 lbs Boat: Mary Lou Crew            

Shark bite reported on Summerland Key Florida

Posted by Becky Herrin,  Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. 15. June 2012 Details are somewhat sketchy, but Sheriff’s Office dispatchers received a call at 2:22 p.m. about a victim who was bitten by a shark at a home at 987 Ocean Drive, Summerland Key. Monroe County Fire Rescue units responded to the call. When they arrived,

Proceedings of the First Pacific Shark Workshop

McFarlane, G., Arndt, U.M. and Cooper, E.W.T. (Eds.) (2012). Proceedings of the First Pacific Shark Workshop, December 13- 15, 2011, Vancouver, Canada TRAFFIC and WWF-Canada. Vancouver PDF – DOWNLOAD    

Diversity of sharks and rays in Vietnam

PowerPoint Presentation by Tran Van Cuong Research Institute for Marine Fisheries (RIMF) Nguyen HoaiNam Department of Capture Fisheries and Resources Protection (DECAFIREP) PDF – DOWNLOAD    

Shark Rescue

Notable Recent Shark Records from the Mediterranean and European Region

The following provides a supplement and continuation of our previous post from 01 May 2012 Notable Recent Shark Catches from the Mediterranean Sea. Seventeen Recent Shark Records from the Mediterranean and European Region.

SC Beaches reopen following 4 likely shark bites

Published by WMBF News Jun 15, 2012 MYRTLE BEACH, SC Police and beach patrol crews in Myrtle Beach are on alert after four people were bitten by what may have been a shark between 72nd and 82nd Avenue North. The dispatch website for Myrtle Beach Police says the call about a possible animal bite came

Identification of Rays through DNA Barcoding

Published on 11. June 2012 Identification of Rays through DNA Barcoding: An Application for Ecologists Florencia Cerutti-Pereyra, Mark G. Meekan, Nu-Wei V. Wei, Owen O’Shea, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Chris M. Austin ABSTRACT: DNA barcoding potentially offers scientists who are not expert taxonomists a powerful tool to support the accuracy of field studies involving taxa

Early human ancestor looked like a shark

Where We Split from Sharks: Common Ancestor Comes Into Focus News Release University of Chicago Medical Center June 13 2012 The common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth resembled a shark, according to a new analysis of the braincase of a 290-million-year-old fossil fish that has long puzzled paleontologists. New research on Acanthodes bronni,

Acanthodes and shark-like conditions in ancestor of modern gnathostomes

Published online on 13. June 2012 Acanthodes and shark-like conditions in the last common ancestor of modern gnathostomes Samuel P. Davis, John A. Finarelli & Michael I. Coates ABSTRACT: Acanthodians, an exclusively Palaeozoic group of fish, are central to a renewed debate on the origin of modern gnathostomes: jawed vertebrates comprising Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays and

June 2012 – Mako Mania Tournament in Ocean City