December 17th, 2018

Eight Shark Species to Benefit from Greater Protection Globally

Eight Shark Species to Benefit from Greater Protection Globally

Press Release Convention on Migratory Species (UNEP/CMS) 14. December 2018 — — — — — — — — — — — — — Monaco, 14 December 2018– After five days’ intensive discussions, the 3rd session of the Meeting of the Signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks came to a

Description of a new deep-water dogfish shark from Hawaii

Description of a new deep-water dogfish shark from Hawaii

Published on 21. November 2018 Description of a new deep-water dogfish shark from Hawaii, with comments on the Squalus mitsukurii species complex in the West Pacific Toby S. Daly-Engel, Amber Koch, James M. Anderson, Charles F. Cotton, R. Dean Grubbs ABSTRACT: Dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus are small, deep-water sharks with a slow rate

Ethnotaxonomy of sharks from tropical waters of Brazil

Ethnotaxonomy of sharks from tropical waters of Brazil

Published on 21. November 2018 Ethnotaxonomy of sharks from tropical waters of Brazil Marcelo Moreira de Carvalho, Mônica Rocha de Oliveira, Priscila Fabiana Macedo Lopes, Jorge Eduardo Lins Oliveira ABSTRACT: Background Accessing folk knowledge from small-scale fishers is an affordable and reliable approach to understand the dynamic and diversity of shark species worldwide, especially of