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
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