April, 2020

Estimates of Age and Growth of Whale Sharks

Estimates of Age and Growth of Whale Sharks

Annual Bands in Vertebrae Validated by Bomb Radiocarbon Assays Provide Estimates of Age and Growth of Whale Sharks Joyce J. L. Ong, Mark G. Meekan, Hua Hsun Hsu, L. Paul Fanning, Steven E. Campana ABSTRACT: Conservation and management strategies for endangered and threatened species require accurate estimates of demographic parameters such as age and growth.

Common thresher shark movement

Common thresher shark movement

Common thresher shark Alopias vulpinus movement: Bayesian inference on a data-limited species Michael J. Kinney, Dovi Kacev, Tim Sippel, Heidi Dewar, Tomoharu Eguchi ABSTRACT: Within the fields of biology and ecology, animal movement is arguably one of the most basic, and yet, often one of the most difficult areas of study. Where and why animals

Long-term monitoring provides insight into estuarine top predator resilience following an extreme weather event

Long-term monitoring provides insight into estuarine top predator resilience following an extreme weather event

Long-term monitoring provides insight into estuarine top predator (Carcharhinus leucas) resilience following an extreme weather event Philip Matich, Bradley A. Strickland, Michael R. Heithaus ABSTRACT: Chronic environmental change threatens biodiversity, but acute disturbance events present more rapid and immediate threats. In 2010, a cold snap across south Florida had wide-ranging impacts, including negative effects on

Trophic resources and mercury exposure of two silvertip shark populations

Trophic resources and mercury exposure of two silvertip shark populations

Trophic resources and mercury exposure of two silvertip shark populations in the Northeast Pacific Ocean Gaël Le Croizier, Anne Lorrain, Gauthier Schaal, James Ketchum, Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Lucien Besnard, Jean-Marie Munaron, François Le Loc’h, David Point ABSTRACT: Worldwide shark populations have experienced rapid declines over the last decades, mainly due to overfishing. Marine protected areas (MPAs)

Retinal topography and spectral sensitivity of the Port Jackson shark

Retinal topography and spectral sensitivity of the Port Jackson shark

Retinal topography and spectral sensitivity of the Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) Lauren R. Peel, Shaun P. Collin, Nathan S. Hart ABSTRACT: In this study, we investigated the visual system of the Port Jackson shark Heterodontus portusjacksoni, a shallow‐dwelling benthic species and generalist predator endemic to the temperate coastal waters around southern Australia. Measurements of

Taiwan: Heavy fines for shark finning and retention of prohibited species

Taiwan: Heavy fines for shark finning and retention of prohibited species

Press Release Fisheries Agency of Taiwan 10. April 2020 — — — — — — — — — — Fisheries Agency of Taiwan reaffirms its determination to combat IUU fishing To combat IUU fishing, the Fisheries Agency of Taiwan recently imposed severe sanctions on several cases of fishing vessels committing serious violations. The Fisheries Agency

How Sharks and Shark–Human Interactions are Reported in Major Australian Newspapers

How Sharks and Shark–Human Interactions are Reported in Major Australian Newspapers

How Sharks and Shark–Human Interactions are Reported in Major Australian Newspapers Nigel Hardiman, Shelley Burgin, Jia Shao ABSTRACT: Few phrases evoke more negative emotion, or generate more media coverage, than ‘shark attack’ despite the few deaths that have been attributed to shark bite. Typically, tabloids are considered to provide more sensational coverage than broadsheets. We

Temporal and latitudinal comparisons of reproductive parameters in a heavily exploited shark

Temporal and latitudinal comparisons of reproductive parameters in a heavily exploited shark

Temporal and latitudinal comparisons of reproductive parameters in a heavily exploited shark, the bonnethead, Sphyrna tiburo (L. 1758), in the southern Gulf of Mexico D. Palacios‐Hernández, J.L. Castillo‐Géniz, I. Méndez‐Loeza, J.C. Pérez‐Jiménez ABSTRACT: In the southern Gulf of Mexico, the bonnethead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, is one of the most frequently captured species in landings of

Impact of a simulated marine heatwave in the hematological profile of a temperate shark

Impact of a simulated marine heatwave in the hematological profile of a temperate shark

Impact of a simulated marine heatwave in the hematological profile of a temperate shark (Scyliorhinus canicula) Maria Rita Pegado, Catarina P.Santos, Dayanne Raffoul, Marta Konieczna, Eduardo Sampaio, Ana Luísa Maulvault, Mário Diniz, Rui Rosa ABSTRACT: As Earth’s temperature continues to rise, sudden warming events, designated as marine heatwaves (MHWs), are becoming more frequent and longer.

Artisanal elasmobranch fisheries of northwestern Baja California

Artisanal elasmobranch fisheries of northwestern Baja California

Artisanal elasmobranch fisheries of northwestern Baja California, Mexico Omar Santana-Morales, Daniel Cartamil, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Rebeca Zertuche-Chanes, Enrique Hernández-Gutiérrez, Jeffrey Graham ABSTRACT: Elasmobranch species composition and spatiotemporal variability can often be characterized from landing surveys of local fisheries, with important management implications. In the present study, we describe the elasmobranch landing composition of 4 major artisanal

Ecological risks of demersal fishing on deepwater chondrichthyan populations in the Southern Indian and South Pacific Oceans

Ecological risks of demersal fishing on deepwater chondrichthyan populations in the Southern Indian and South Pacific Oceans

Ecological risks of demersal fishing on deepwater chondrichthyan populations in the Southern Indian and South Pacific Oceans L Georgeson, C L Rigby, T J Emery, M Fuller, J Hartog, A J Williams, A J Hobday, C A J Duffy, C A Simpfendorfer, T Okuda, I C Stobutzki, S J Nicol ABSTRACT: Risks to deepwater chondrichthyans

Spatial distribution and abundance of the by‐catch coastal elasmobranch Raja undulata

Spatial distribution and abundance of the by‐catch coastal elasmobranch Raja undulata

Spatial distribution and abundance of the by‐catch coastal elasmobranch Raja undulata: Managing a fishery after moratorium Ivone Figueiredo, Catarina Maia, Lucília Carvalho ABSTRACT: The undulate ray Raja undulata Lacepède is a coastal species common along the north‐eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea and is highly accessible to coastal fisheries. Between 2009 and 2015, the species

AUS: Fatal shark bite at the Great Barrier Reef

AUS: Fatal shark bite at the Great Barrier Reef

Media Release Queensland Police 07. April 2020 Fatal shark bite, Gladstone A 23-year-old man has died following a fatal shark bite in waters off North West Island yesterday. The man was swimming with a group of friends and as he was swimming back to their charter vessel, he was bitten by a shark. A doctor

Scalloped hammerhead sharks swim on their side with diel shifts in roll magnitude and periodicity

Scalloped hammerhead sharks swim on their side with diel shifts in roll magnitude and periodicity

Scalloped hammerhead sharks swim on their side with diel shifts in roll magnitude and periodicity Royer, M., Maloney, K., Meyer, C. et al. ABSTRACT: Background Great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran) routinely swim on their sides and periodically roll from side to side. A previous study used wind tunnel tests with a rigid model hammerhead shark

Revision of the sixgill sawsharks, genus Pliotrema

Revision of the sixgill sawsharks, genus Pliotrema

Revision of the sixgill sawsharks, genus Pliotrema (Chondrichthyes, Pristiophoriformes), with descriptions of two new species and a redescription of P. warreni Regan Simon Weigmann, Ofer Gon, Ruth H. Leeney, Ellen Barrowclift, Per Berggren, Narriman Jiddawi, Andrew J. Temple ABSTRACT: Recent sampling efforts in Madagascar and Zanzibar, as well as examinations of six-gilled sawsharks in several