September, 2021

Successful parks for sharks

Successful parks for sharks

Successful parks for sharks: No-take marine reserve provides conservation benefits to endemic and threatened sharks off South Africa Patricia S. Albano, Chris Fallows, Monique Fallows, Olivia Schuitema, Anthony T.F. Bernard, Oliver Sedgwick, Neil Hammerschlag ABSTRACT: Sharks are among the most threatened vertebrates on the planet. Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been widely established and promoted

Size structure of broadnose sevengill sharks in Sawdust Bay, Rakiura/Stewart Island

Size structure of broadnose sevengill sharks in Sawdust Bay, Rakiura/Stewart Island

Size structure of broadnose sevengill sharks (Notorynchus cepedianus) in Sawdust Bay, Rakiura/Stewart Island, estimated using underwater stereo-photogrammetry Robert Lewis, Steve Dawson, Will Rayment ABSTRACT: The broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) is a large marine predator found in temperate coastal marine habitats. Despite being commonly encountered, details of its ecology are limited. To partially address this,

New Records of the Great White Shark off the Lybian coast

New Records of the Great White Shark off the Lybian coast

Using citizen science to detect rare and endangered species: New records of the great white shark Carcharodon carcharias off the Libyan coast Patrick L. JAMBURA & Julia TÜRTSCHER, Alessandro DE MADDALENA, Ioannis GIOVOS, Jürgen KRIWET, Jamila RIZGALLA, Sara A. A. AL MABRUK ABSTRACT: The presence of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in the Mediterranean

Shark Incident off Grand Isle, Louisiana

Shark Incident off Grand Isle, Louisiana

Press Release U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Heartland 03. September 2021 — — — — — — — — Coast Guard medevacs shark attack victim from fishing vessel 35 miles off Grand Isle, Louisiana NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard medevaced an injured crew member from a fishing vessel after a shark attack approximately 35 miles southeast

Horizontal and vertical movements of immature dusky sharks

Horizontal and vertical movements of immature dusky sharks

Horizontal and vertical movements of immature dusky sharks Carcharhinus obscurus in relation to commercial longline fisheries in the western North Atlantic Ocean Kroetz, A.M., Gulak, S.J.B. & Carlson, J.K. ABSTRACT: BackgroundMany species of sharks, including the dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus, are often incidentally captured in commercial pelagic and bottom longline fisheries. Incidental capture can lead

Ontario-based trading company fined $60,000 for illegally importing fins of threatened shark species

Ontario-based trading company fined $60,000 for illegally importing fins of threatened shark species

Press Release Government of Canada 01. September 2021 — — — — — — — — Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is committed to protecting Canadian and foreign species of wild animals and plants that may be at risk of overexploitation due to unsustainable or illegal trade. On August 31, 2021, S L Dried

Suspected predatory bites on a snorkeler by an oceanic whitetip shark off Moorea island

Suspected predatory bites on a snorkeler by an oceanic whitetip shark off Moorea island

Suspected predatory bites on a snorkeler by an oceanic whitetip shark Carcharhinus longimanus off Moorea island (French Polynesia) Eric E. G. Clua DVM, PhD, Simon Demarchi MSc, Carl G. Meyer PhD ABSTRACT: Understanding why sharks bite humans is essential for developing strategies to prevent these incidents. Here, we use bite wound characteristics and eye witness

The whale shark genome reveals patterns of vertebrate gene family evolution

The whale shark genome reveals patterns of vertebrate gene family evolution

The whale shark genome reveals patterns of vertebrate gene family evolution Milton Tan, Anthony K Redmond, Helen Dooley, Ryo Nozu, Keiichi Sato, Shigehiro Kuraku, Sergey Koren, Adam M Phillippy, Alistair DM Dove, Timothy Read ABSTRACT: Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) are fundamental for understanding vertebrate evolution, yet their genomes are understudied. We report long-read sequencing of the

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Caribbean reef shark

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Caribbean reef shark

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Caribbean reef shark, Carcharhinus perezi (Carcharhinformes: Carcharhinidae) Austin J. Gallagher, Oliver N. Shipley, Bo Reese & Vijender Singh ABSTRACT: The Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi; Poey, 1876) is a medium to large-bodied coastal and reef-associated predator found throughout the subtropical and tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea,