Video: Great white shark caught in Tunisia, Dec 2022

NSW: Maximum protections in place against sharks this beach season

Media Release Minister for Agriculture and Western NSW, Australia 16. December 2022 — — — — — The NSW Government is ramping up its shark management measures ahead of a busy summer season, today launching four Rapid Response Vessels that will be ready for action over the coming months. Minister for Agriculture Dugald Saunders said

PARALLEL INVESTIGATIONS CHARACTERIZE MAUI SHARK INCIDENT

News Release Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii 16. December 2022 — — — — — Social Media Commenters Asked to Think Before Posting (WAILUKU) – Collaborative investigations by the Maui Police Department (MPD), and the DLNR Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE), into last week’s disappearance of a 60-year-old Washington State woman

First evidence of population genetic structure of the deep-water blackmouth catshark

First evidence of population genetic structure of the deep-water blackmouth catshark Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1810 Diego M. Vazquez, Cynthia A. Awruch, Luis O. Lucifora, Juan M. Díaz de Astarloa, Ezequiel Mabragaña ABSTRACT: Among the main measures adopted to reduce anthropogenic impacts on elasmobranch communities, understanding the ecology of deep-sea sharks is of paramount importance, especially

Embryonic development timeline in skates

Embryonic development timeline in skates (Chondrichthyes: Rajiformes): Sympterygia acuta as the first case study in the family Arhynchobatidae Diego M. Vazquez, Cynthia A. Awruch, Luis O. Lucifora, Juan M. Díaz de Astarloa, Ezequiel Mabragaña ABSTRACT: Oviparous elasmobranch embryos (Chondrichthyes) have been the focus of several embryological studies; they are useful models for studying early ontogeny

Interspecific foraging association of a nurse shark with bottlenose dolphins

Interspecific foraging association of a nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) with bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Connor F. White, Harold. L. Pratt Jr., Theo C. Pratt, Nicholas M. Whitney  ABSTRACT: Animals sometimes forage in mixed species groups, where an individual of a “follower” species actively trails a foraging individual of another “nuclear” species to benefit from the

Electric pulses save sharks from fishing hooks

News Release University of Exeter 21. November 2022 — — — — — — — — Gadgets that emit small electrical pulses can drastically cut the number of sharks and stingrays caught accidentally on fishing lines, new research shows. A new device called SharkGuard attaches to longline fishing rigs to scare off sharks and rays.

Efficacy of a novel shark bycatch mitigation device in a tuna longline fishery

Efficacy of a novel shark bycatch mitigation device in a tuna longline fishery Philip D. Doherty, Robert Enever, Lucy C.M. Omeyer, Lydia Tivenan, Grant Course, Guy Pasco, David Thomas, Ben Sullivan, Ben Kibel, Pete Kibel, Brendan J. Godley SUMMARY: Elasmobranchs (sharks, rays, and skates) are caught throughout fisheries globally, leading to over one-third of species