2 La. men admit illegally fishing for shark fins

2 La. men admit illegally fishing for shark fins  Published 2:05 p.m., Friday, November 30, 2012 BELLE CHASSE, La. (AP) — Two men have pleaded guilty to a Louisiana fishing violation after authorities said fins from hundreds of sharks were found aboard their vessel. Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says 37-year-old Rick Nguyen of

Shark attacks snorkeler off Kihei, injuring man’s left leg

Shark attacks snorkeler off Kihei, injuring man’s left leg A shark attacked a snorkeler in Kihei this morning, prompting officials to close the beach. The 61-year-old victim was snorkeling with another man about 200 yards offshore from 1790 Halama Street when a shark attacked him at 10:15 a.m., causing multiple lacerations to his lower left leg

Shark myths exposed

WA Shark hazard guidelines now in place

Department of Fisheries operational guidelines that give effect to the WA Government’s ‘imminent threat’ policy to deal with significant shark hazards are now in place. Director General Stuart Smith said the guidelines (pdf) provided a framework for assessing the threat posed by a shark and, if required, acting to take a shark.

US FWS Factsheet: Oceanic Whitetip Shark CITES Proposal

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service The 16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties Proposal to Include Oceanic Whitetip Shark in CITES Appendix II The United States of America has co-sponsored a Colombian proposal with Brazil for consideration at the 16th Meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties (CoP16) to include the oceanic whitetip

White Shark Embryo in Taiwan

Fatal Shark Attack in Mexico

Altata, Navolato: Media reported today that 32-year-old lifeguard Cárdenas García was attacked by a shark at 11:40am off the Nuevo Altata beach after cutting rope that had entangled him in high waves.

EU Shark finning loopholes closed

MEPs removed exceptions to the EU ban on "shark finning" - i.e. cutting off fins and dumping carcasses at sea - in a vote on Thursday. These exceptions required fishermen to keep carcases on board, but they made the ban difficult to enforce, as by allowing boats to land fins and bodies at different ports, they made it hard...

Hard to fish areas of the seabed may act as refuges for endangered skate

News Release Bangor University 16. November 2012 Marine scientists working in the Celtic Sea have discovered a natural refuge for the critically endangered flapper skate. Many elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates) are highly vulnerable to over-fishing, but a new paper in the open access journal PLOS ONE shows that small areas of the seabed that

Spatial Heterogeneity in Fishing Creates Refugia for Elasmobranchs in Celtic Sea

Published on 14. November 2012 Spatial Heterogeneity in Fishing Creates de facto Refugia for Endangered Celtic Sea Elasmobranchs Samuel Shephard, Hans Gerritsen, Michel J. Kaiser, David G. Reid ABSTRACT: The life history characteristics of some elasmobranchs make them particularly vulnerable to fishing mortality; about a third of all species are listed by the IUCN as

Teen surfer bitten by shark off Melbourne Beach

A 14-year-old boy says he was bitten by a shark while paddling back in from surfing off Melbourne Beach on this evening.   Kai Rittgers and his dad, Bryce, and brothers had been surfing at North Spessard Holland Park. “He was out there surfing and he was coming back in, it was dusk,” Bryce Rittgers

ICCAT 2012: Good News for Tuna, Less so for Sharks

Agadir, Morocco - This year’s meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has been a tale of two giants of the open ocean: tunas and sharks, with contrasting outcomes for each.

British Record sized Sixgill shark caught off Isle of Wight

Helmut Nickel, Shark Year Magazine, 19. November 2012 Date: reported on 09. November 2012 Location: Isle of Wight, South East England Species: Bluntnose sixgill shark ( Hexanchus griseus ) Weight: 12,7 kg ( 28 lb ) Angler releases rare catch that could smash a 36 years old British fishing record Chris Rogers has landed a

Anti Shark Finning Protest in Rome Italy

Biomarkers of Whale Shark Health

Published on 15. November 2012 Biomarkers of Whale Shark Health: A Metabolomic Approach Alistair D. M. Dove, Johannes Leisen, Manshui Zhou, Jonathan J. Byrne, Krista Lim-Hing, Harry D. Webb, Leslie Gelbaum, Mark R. Viant, Julia Kubanek, Facundo M. Fernández ABSTRACT: In a search for biomarkers of health in whale sharks and as exploration of metabolomics