Who let the dogfish out? A review of management and socio-economic aspects of spiny dogfish fisheries

Published online on 18. November 2014 Who let the dogfish out? A review of management and socio-economic aspects of spiny dogfish fisheries Andrea Dell’Apa, Charles W. Bangley, Roger A. Rulifson ABSTRACT: Multi-scaled integrated analysis across biological, economic, social, and political aspects of fisheries is needed to provide effective management strategies. These aspects are naturally conflicting

Guide: Sharks of the Pisco Province, Peru

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7NEWS: Great white shark pulled from nets at Bondi Beach

Atlantic Fishery Managers Fail Sharks Yet Again

Press Release Shark Advocates International 17. November 2014 ———————– ICCAT leaves high seas mako fishing unregulated, porbeagles under-protected, and finning ban weak Genoa, Italy. November 17, 2014. Fishing nations at the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) have failed to reach consensus on several shark conservation proposals, including

U.S. Federal government must reconsider porbeagle protection, says court

News Release The Humane Society of the United States 14. November 2014 ————————– Federal Court Stands Up for Sharks The federal government must reconsider the protection of porbeagle sharks in the Northwest Atlantic, a court has ruled. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the National Marine Fisheries Service’s basis for denying

Bathymetric limits of chondrichthyans in the deep sea

Published online on 29. October 2014 Bathymetric limits of chondrichthyans in the deep sea: A re-evaluation J.A. Musick, C.F. Cotton ABSTRACT: Chondrichthyans are largely absent in abyssal (>3000 m) habitats in most regions of the world ocean and are uncommon below 2000 m. The deeper-living chondrichthyans include certain rajids, squaliforms and holocephalans. Several hypotheses have been erected

Man reports shark bite off Kaanapali, Hawaii

News Release Hawaii DLNR (Department of Land and Natural Resources) 13. November 2014 ————————– APPARENT SHARK ATTACK INJURES ALASKA MAN Some West Maui Beaches Closed A 50 year old Homer, Alaska man, snorkeling in the ocean off Airplane Beach in the Ka’anapali area of West Maui, reported being bitten by a shark at around 1:30

International action taken on protecting shark, ray and sawfish species

Press Release European Commission (Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries) 10. November 2014 ————————- (10/11/2014) The 11th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) was held in Quito, Ecuador, from 4 to 9 November 2014. The EU was amongst the Parties agreeing

TTV News: Great white shark found beached in Taiwan

Apristurus breviventralis, a new species of deep-water catshark from the Gulf of Aden

Published on 03. November 2014 Apristurus breviventralis, a new species of deep-water catshark (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from the Gulf of Aden Junro Kawauchi, Simon Weigmann, Kazuhiro Nakaya ABSTRACT: A new deep-water catshark of the genus Apristurus Garman, 1913 is described based on nine specimens from the Gulf of Aden in the northwestern Indian Ocean. Apristurus

Tiger shark attacks surfer off North Kohala, Hawaii

Media Release Hawaiʻi Police Department, North Kohala District 31. October 2014 ———————– North Kohala shark attack 10-31-14 A 34-year-old Kailua-Kona woman was attacked by a shark while surfing at Halaula Lighthouse in North Kohala. At 11:12 a.m. Friday (October 31), police received a report that the victim was en route to North Hawaiʻi Community Hospital