July, 2019

Industrialised fishing overlaps threatened shark hotspots worldwide

Industrialised fishing overlaps threatened shark hotspots worldwide

Press Release The Marine Biological Association (MBA) 24. July 2019 —- —- —- —- —- — — — Major high seas fishing activities are centred on ecologically important shark hotspots worldwide North Atlantic blue sharks and shortfin mako – the fastest shark in the sea – have on average 76% and 62% of their space

Global spatial risk assessment of sharks

Global spatial risk assessment of sharks

Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries Nuno Queiroz, Nicolas E. Humphries, David W. Sims, et al. ABSTRACT: Effective ocean management and conservation of highly migratory species depends on resolving overlap between animal movements and distributions and fishing effort. Yet, this information is lacking at a global scale. Here we show,

Seasonal trends in whale shark sightings in an established tourism site

Seasonal trends in whale shark sightings in an established tourism site

Seasonal trends in whale shark Rhincodon typus sightings in an established tourism site in the Gulf of California, Mexico D. A. Whitehead, D. Petatán‐Ramírez, D. Olivier, R. González Armas, F. Pancaldi, F. Galván‐Magaña ABSTRACT: The number of individual whale shark Rhincodon typus sightings registered October 2015–March 2018 in Bahia de La Paz, Mexico, ranged from

WWF Report: Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea 2019

WWF Report: Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea 2019

Sharks In Crisis: A Call To Action For The Mediterranean Published in July 2019 by WWF PDF-DOWNLOAD

Hammerhead shark spotted in Irish waters

Hammerhead shark spotted in Irish waters

News Release Marine Institute, Ireland 19. July 2019 — — — — — — — A new shark species spotted in Irish waters A shark species, previously unrecorded in Irish waters, has been sighted 100 miles south-west of Ireland on the continental shelf edge, during a recent fisheries survey on the Marine Institute’s RV Celtic

South Africa: Surfer survives shark attack in Port Alfred

South Africa: Surfer survives shark attack in Port Alfred

Press Release National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) 10. July 2019 —- — — — — — — — Shark incident at East Beach, Port Alfred, and safety advisory: At approximately, 10h30, Wednesday, 10th July, NSRI Port Alfred duty crew were activated following reports of a surfer, a local man, aged in his early 20’s, bitten on the

GMA News: Rare Megamouth shark killed by fishermen in Philippines

Hundreds of sharks and rays tangled in plastic

Hundreds of sharks and rays tangled in plastic

Press Release University of Exeter 5. July 2019 — — — — — — — — — — Hundreds of sharks and rays have become tangled in plastic waste in the world’s oceans, new research shows. University of Exeter scientists scoured existing published studies and Twitter for shark and ray entanglements, and found reports of

Shark and ray entanglement in anthropogenic marine debris

Shark and ray entanglement in anthropogenic marine debris

Global review of shark and ray entanglement in anthropogenic marine debris Kristian J. Parton, Tamara S. Galloway, Brendan J. Godley ABSTRACT: Numerous marine taxa become entangled in anthropogenic marine debris, including cartilaginous fishes (class: Chondrichthyes, e.g. elasmobranchs , holocephalans ). Here we review research that has been conducted on the susceptibility of

News1st Tamil: Whale shark caught in Sri Lanka – June 2019

Greenpeace: Sharks Under Attack

Greenpeace: Sharks Under Attack

A CASE STUDY IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC: SHARKS UNDER ATTACK Published by Greenpeace International June 2019 PDF-DOWNLOAD

Updated taxonomic list and conservation status of chondrichthyans from Venezuela

Updated taxonomic list and conservation status of chondrichthyans from Venezuela

Updated taxonomic list and conservation status of chondrichthyans from the exclusive economic zone of Venezuela, with first generic and specific records Nicolás R. Ehemann, Lorem D. V. González‐González, Alejandro Tagliafico, Simon Weigmann ABSTRACT: Using the last taxonomic review of chondrichthyans of the world, we selected the species distributed in the north‐western Atlantic Ocean (NWA) and

Planonasus indicus sp. n., a new species of pygmy false catshark

Planonasus indicus sp. n., a new species of pygmy false catshark

Planonasus indicus sp. n., a new species of pygmy false catshark (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Pseudotriakidae), with a revised diagnosis of the genus and key to the family David A. Ebert, K. V. Akhilesh, Simon Weigmann ABSTRACT: A new species of the genus Planonasus is described from off southwestern India and Sri Lanka in the northern Indian

MOOC: ID sharks with their morphological characteristics (in Greek)

MOOC: ID sharks with their morphological characteristics (in Greek)

Press Release Biodiversity GR– Citizen science conservation organization – 02. July 2019 — — — — — —- — — — — — — How many times have you seen shark swim (rare sightings in Greece), or have you seen shark photograph in newspapers or social networks, or in the fish farm and wondering what

DNA from tooth in Florida man’s foot solves 25-year-old shark bite mystery

DNA from tooth in Florida man’s foot solves 25-year-old shark bite mystery

Press Release Florida Museum of Natural History 02. July 2019 — — — — — — — — — — — — — GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When Jeff Weakley tweezed open a blister-like bulge on his foot, he was not expecting to find a piece of tooth from a shark that bit him while he