Grey nurse shark conservation review underway in New South Wales Australia

ABC NEWS July 12, 2011 A review of grey nurse shark protection moves to Coffs Harbour today, Tuesday July 12, 2011. The O’Farrell government has revoked fishing bans off South West Rocks and rolled-back management zones in the Solitary Islands Marine Park. The department of Primary Industries’ Sarah Fairfull says more review sessions are at

Thousands cry out to ban shark fin imports to Costa Rica.

PRETOMA Press Release July 12, 2011 – San José, Costa Rica A letter signed by 4039 Costa Rican citizens, was delivered today to the country’s President Laura Chinchilla, urging her to sign an Executive Decree banning shark fin imports.  The letter was also signed by 324 citizens of 39 countries, from Taiwan to the United

France: Dead Hammerhead Shark found in Mediterranean Sea

12 July 2011 According to the French media, the carcass of a big hammerhead shark (Sphyrna spp.) was found on the shore of a small cove at Cap Corse, a 40 km long peninsula located at the northern part of Corsica Island. The badly decomposed shark, which was reported to be 4 metres in length,

Australia Shark Alert ! 2.5 m Bull Shark caught in Noosa Waters canals

California Academy of Sciences researchers worry about shark population in the Philippines

NZ Divers at risk from sharks

Southern paua divers are worried it will take someone being killed by a great white shark before the Government enforces restrictions on tourism dive operators.

Snug Harbor Shark Tournament 2011

Snug Harbor Shark Tournament 2011 Wakefield, Rhode Island. Thresher Shark (Alopias vulpinus) :1st Place ( and Grand Prize ): Size: 344 pounds

Taiwan fishermen to be asked to bring in sharks intact

10 July 2011 By Jamie Wang, Focus Taiwan News Channel. Taiwan will next year become the first Asian country to ban fishermen from bringing in dismembered sharks, as part of efforts to prevent finning, a local report said Sunday. Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency (FA) under the Council of Agriculture expects to implement a new regulation to

Shark Week 2011: Shark Fishing Banned in Honduras, Bahamas

Australia: Hammerhead shark beaches in Lake

10 July 2011 The Newcastle Herald is reporting that an approximately 9 foot (2.7 metre) long hammerhead shark beached itself at west Lake Macquarie. It’s Australia’s largest coastal salt water lake in the Hunter Region of New South Wales. The shark had a visible injury to its first doral fin and was thrashing in shallow

Sixgill Shark caught in the Azores Islands

09 July 2011 A bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) was caught in the waters of Graciosa Island recently. This Portuguese island is the northernmost of the Central Group (Grupo Central) of islands in the Azores. The capture was made by the two brothers Fernando and Lázaro Lima Pires da Silva on 06 July 2011. The

Reef-use and residency patterns of a baited population of silky sharks, Carcharhinus falciformis, in the Red Sea

Published on 24 June 2011. C. Clarke, J. S. E. Lea, R. F. G. Ormond. ABSTRACT: Many shark populations are experiencing critical declines from overfishing, triggering potentially detrimental cascade effects on marine ecosystems. Silky sharks, Carcharhinus falciformis, have experienced some of the most severe declines, yet little information exists on their behavioural ecology to inform

Rediscovery and redescription of the smoothtooth blacktip shark, Carcharhinus leiodon (Carcharhinidae), from Kuwait, with notes on its possible conservation status

Published on 24 June 2011 Alec B. M. Moore, William T. White, Robert D. Ward, Gavin J. P. Naylor, Richard Peirce. ABSTRACT: The smoothtooth blacktip shark, Carcharhinus leiodon, is one of the rarest whaler shark species of the genus Carcharhinus, previously known only from the holotype collected over 100 years ago from the Arabian Sea

Shark Week 2011: How To Ship a Shark

Shark Fishing in Ecuador

08 July 2011, GALAPAGOS BLOG. In 2007 President Rafael Correa overturned the law prohibiting the sale of shark fins and shark meat making it legal for fishermen who “accidently” catch sharks while conducting other fishing activity.  As a result thousands of sharks are killed each year and sold to Hong Kong or other parts of Asia