Abundance patterns of reef sharks and predatory fishes on differently zoned reefs in the offshore Townsville region final report to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority [PDF]
, 2008 Sharks were counted in six 500 x 20 m transects on the slope of each reef during late March 2008. Densities of whitetip reef sharks (Triaenodon obesus) were twice as high on green reefs as on blue reefs but were twice as high on pink reefs as on green ...
Ayling, A.M., Choat, J.H.
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Pelagic sharks by-catch in the tuna longline fishery of the Indian EEZ [PDF]
, 2002 Several species of pelagic and oceanic sharks are caught by the tuna longliners of FSI while surveying the oceanic tuna resources in the Indian EEZ. Though the sharks are not targeted species in tuna longlining, they constitute a major share of the ...
Bhargava, A K +2 more
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Mercury Levels in Marine and Estuarine Fishes of Florida 1989–2001. 2nd edition revised [PDF]
, 2003 The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Florida Marine Research Institute (FWC-FMRI) has examined total mercury levels in muscle tissue from a variety of economically and ecologically important species as part of an ongoing study to ...
Adams, Douglas H. +2 more
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Conservation Biology of Elasmobranchs [PDF]
, 1993 Elasmobranchs are vital and valuable components of the marine biota. From an ecological perspective they occupy the role of top predators within marine food webs, providing a regulatory control that helps balance the ecosystem.
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, 2008 https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_currents/1009/thumbnail ...
NSU Oceanographic Center
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Effects of an extreme temperature event on the behavior and age structure of an estuarine top predator, Carcharhinus leucas [PDF]
, 2012 The frequency of extreme environmental events is predicted to increase in the future. Understanding the short- and long-term impacts of these extreme events on large-bodied predators will provide insight into the spatial and temporal scales at which ...
Heithaus, Michael R., Matich, Philip
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Stock assessment of whaler and hammerhead sharks (Carcharhinidae and Sphyrnidae) in Queensland [PDF]
, 2015 This stock assessment provides detailed results for the most common sharks encountered by Queensland commercial fishers. These sharks come from the whaler (Carcharhinidae) and hammerhead (Sphyrnidae) families and comprise sharpnose sharks (Rhizoprionodon
Leigh, G.M.
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Guide to the development of Myanmar's National Plan of Action for the conservation and management of sharks [PDF]
, 2015 The priorities for the revised National Plan of Action include: strengthening current regulations; improved data collection of landings; identifying breeding and nursery grounds; study of ecology and biology of sharks; improved data acquisition of shark ...
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Exploring intraspecific life history patterns in sharks [PDF]
, 2006 Marine ecosystems compose the major source (85%) of world fisheries production (Garcia and Newton, 1997). Although only a few fish species tend to dominate fishery catches (Jennings et al., 2001), a large diversity of fishes representing varied ...
Cope, Jason M.
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Fisheries in atolls- Tradeoffs between harvest and conservation [PDF]
, 2017 Atolls are ring shaped coral reefs including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon partially or completely and with or without a coral island/cays on the rim. Most of the world’s atolls are in the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean.
Abdul Azeez, P, Koya, Mohammed
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