June 26th, 2020

Merchant pleads guilty to illegal selling of shark fin in Portland market

Merchant pleads guilty to illegal selling of shark fin in Portland market

News Release Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Tuesday, June 23, 2020 — — — — — — — — — — — — PORTLAND, Ore.—Illegal shark fin sales in a Portland grocery store marks the first conviction under an Oregon law that prohibits possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins. The June 4

Young male receives injury in Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Young male receives injury in Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras National Seashore

News ReleaseU.S. National Park Service 19. June 2020 — — — — — — — — — A 16-year-old male from Oak Ridge, North Carolina reportedly received a non-life-threatening injury from a shark off Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore). The incident occurred at approximately 4:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Last evening, Dare County Dispatch notified Seashore

Diet Composition and Nutritional Niche Breadth Variability in Juvenile White Sharks

Diet Composition and Nutritional Niche Breadth Variability in Juvenile White Sharks

Diet Composition and Nutritional Niche Breadth Variability in Juvenile White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) Richard Grainger, Victor M. Peddemors, David Raubenheimer, Gabriel E. Machovsky-Capuska ABSTRACT: Establishing diets and dietary generalism in marine top predators is critical for understanding their ecological roles and responses to environmental fluctuations. Nutrition plays a key mediatory role in species-environment interactions, yet

Complete mitochondrial genome of the whitetip reef shark

Complete mitochondrial genome of the whitetip reef shark

Complete mitochondrial genome of the whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus from the British Indian Ocean Territory Marine Protected Area Shaili Johri, Taylor K. Chapple, Robert Schallert, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Barbara A. Block ABSTRACT: We present the first mitochondrial genome of Trianenodon obesus from the Chagos Archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Marine Protected

Autonomous Drone Shark Shield

Autonomous Drone Shark Shield

Autonomous Drone Shark Shield: A Novel Shark Repelling System for Protecting Swimmers and Surfers X. Li, H. Huang and A. V. Savkin ABSTRACT: Aiming at protecting swimmers and surfers from shark attacks and preventing hurting sharks, we present a novel shark repelling system: Autonomous Drone Shark Shield, which uses flying drones to impede and prevent

Evidence of diverse movement strategies and habitat use by white sharks off southern Australia

Evidence of diverse movement strategies and habitat use by white sharks off southern Australia

Evidence of diverse movement strategies and habitat use by white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, off southern Australia Russell Bradford, T. A. Patterson, P. J. Rogers, R. McAuley, S. Mountford, C. Huveneers, R. Robbins, A. Fox, B. D. Bruce ABSTRACT: Large endothermic pelagic sharks are highly migratory and use habitats spanning a broad range of coastal, neritic

An encounter between a pelagic shark and giant cephalopod

An encounter between a pelagic shark and giant cephalopod

An encounter between a pelagic shark and giant cephalopod Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Deron Verbeck, Melanie Hutchinson, Heather D. Bracken‐Grissom, Demian Chapman ABSTRACT: An oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus ) was observed off the coast of Kona, Hawaii, with scars caused by the tentacles of a large cephalopod. While the exact species could not be confirmed,