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Artisanal fisheries impact on the smalltail shark from Northern Brazil
From plentiful to critically endangered: Demographic evidence of the artisanal fisheries impact on the smalltail shark (Carcharhinus porosus) from Northern Brazil Francisco Marcante Santana, Leonardo Manir Feitosa, Rosângela Paula Lessa ABSTRACT: The smalltail shark, Carcharhinus porosus, was the most abundant elasmobranch species in fisheries off Brazil’s northern coast (BNC) in the 1980s, but its population
Whale sharks get cleaned by the blue‐streak cleaner wrasse and the moon wrasse in the Philippines
Whale sharks Rhincodon typus get cleaned by the blue‐streak cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus and the moon wrasse Thalassoma lunare in the Philippines Gonzalo Araujo, Joni A. Miranda, Harriet L. Allen, Jessica Labaja, Sally Snow, Alessandro Ponzo, Christine G. Legaspi ABSTRACT: Cleaning interactions are essential for healthy marine ecosystem communities. This study reports the first documentation
Shark longline survey in the eastern Bahamas, 1979 – 2013
Results of a fishery-independent longline survey targeting coastal sharks in the eastern Bahamas between 1979 and 2013 Brendan S. Talwar, Jeffrey A. Stein, Stephen M.H. Connett, Stephanie A. Liss, Edward J. Brooks ABSTRACT: Long-term trends in shark abundance offer important insights for fisheries management. Few fisheries-independent, extended time-series data exist for coastal shark species in