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The Socio-Economic Value of the Shark-Diving Industry in Fiji [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Based on a survey of divers, dive operators, resort managers, estimates business revenues from shark diving and related expenditures by area; tax revenues; and economic benefit to local ...
D. Pannell   +4 more
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Population genetics of four heavily exploited shark species around the Arabian Peninsula. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The northwestern Indian Ocean harbors a number of larger marine vertebrate taxa that warrant the investigation of genetic population structure given remarkable spatial heterogeneity in biological characteristics such as distribution, behavior, and ...
Berumen, ML   +4 more
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Simulated ocean acidification affects shark tooth morphology

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
Changing ecological factors pose a challenge to many organisms. Global changes and the associated environmental changes have major impacts on marine organisms and threaten the biodiversity of marine ecosystems.
Maximilian Baum   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fathom Magazine, v. 8, no. 2, Summer 1996 22pp :Florida sharks [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
CONTENTS. Protecting the Predators, by Jay Humphrey. Economics Create Responsible Shark Management, by Jay Humphreys. The Healing Power of Sharks, by Kelly Marie Sokol. Shark! by Jay Humphreys. Florida's Sharks. Entering the Sharks' Environment, by
Grantham, Susan   +3 more
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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Position Statement on the conservation and management of sharks and rays in the Queensland East Coast Inshore Finfish Fishery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The purpose of this document is to state the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s (GBRMPA) position on conservation of sharks and rays in relation to the Queensland East Coast Inshore Finfish Fishery (ECIFF).

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Drivers of Daily Routines in an Ectothermic Marine Predator: Hunt Warm, Rest Warmer?

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Animal daily routines represent a compromise between maximizing foraging success and optimizing physiological performance, while minimizing the risk of predation.
Yannis P Papastamatiou   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health of the Aldabra Group, Southern Seychelles: Scientific Report to the Government of Seychelles. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
National Geographic's Pristine Seas project, in collaboration with the government of the Seychelles, the Island Conservation Society (ICS), the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF), and the Waitt Foundation, conducted an expedition to explore the poorly ...
Alan M. Friedlander   +8 more
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Assessment of the Distribution and Abundance of Coastal Sharks in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Seaboard, 1995 and 1996 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
During 1995 and 1996, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), conducted pilot studies to develop survey methodology and a sampling strategy for assessment of coastal shark populations in the Gulf of Mexico and western North Atlantic.
Grace , Mark, Henwood, Terry
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Sharks - The State of the Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The biological characteristics of sharks make them particularly vulnerable to overfishing. They grow slowly, become sexually mature relatively late and produce few offspring.
Alexia C. Morgan
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First photographic inland record of blacktip reef sharks Carcharhinus melanopterus (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) in Indonesian waters

open access: yesEcologica Montenegrina, 2019
Blacktip reef sharks Carcharhinus melanopterus were caught and photographed by local people on 6 March 2019 during a flash flood in Sentani, Jayapura district, Papua province, Indonesia. The presence of C. melanopterus in Sentani represents the first inland record (c. 20 km) for this species in Indonesia.
Muhammad Iqbal   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

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