Global shark fishing mortality still rising despite widespread regulatory change
ScienceBoris Worm, , Echelle S Burns
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Illegal Trade in Protected Sharks: The Case of Artisanal Whale Shark Meat Fisheries in Java, Indonesia [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, including that of sharks, poses a significant threat to marine ecosystems and individual species. I use data from the media, tourists, and artisan fishermen to gain insight into the trade in the world’s ...
Vincent Nijman
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Pieces in a global puzzle: Population genetics at two whale shark aggregations in the western Indian Ocean [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The whale shark Rhincodon typus is found throughout the world's tropical and warm‐temperate ocean basins. Despite their broad physical distribution, research on the species has been concentrated at a few aggregation sites.
Royale S. Hardenstine +14 more
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Armored eyes of the whale shark. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 This report elaborates on adaptations of the eyes of the whale shark Rhincodon typus (Elasmobranchii, Rhincodontidae), including the discovery that they are covered with dermal denticles, which is a novel mechanism of eye protection in vertebrates.
Taketeru Tomita +6 more
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In-water observations highlight the effects of provisioning on whale shark behaviour at the world's largest whale shark tourism destination [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 The whale shark is the world's largest fish that forms predictable aggregations across its range, many of which support tourism industries. The largest non-captive provisioned whale shark destination globally is at Oslob, Philippines, where more than 500
Christine Legaspi +5 more
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Does bathymetry drive coastal whale shark (Rhincodon typus) aggregations? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is known to aggregate in a number of coastal locations globally, however what causes these aggregations to form where they do is largely unknown.
Joshua P. Copping +4 more
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Draft sequencing and assembly of the genome of the world’s largest fish, the whale shark: Rhincodon typus Smith 1828 [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2017 Background The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) has by far the largest body size of any elasmobranch (shark or ray) species. Therefore, it is also the largest extant species of the paraphyletic assemblage commonly referred to as fishes. As both a phenotypic
Timothy D. Read +11 more
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Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2020 The whale shark is the world’s largest filter feeding shark and holds international protection as an endangered species. It is known to form seasonal aggregations linked to blooms of zooplanktonic organisms.
Darren Andrew Whitehead +4 more
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Acoustic telemetry reveals cryptic residency of whale sharks [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2015 Although whale sharks ( Rhincodon typus ) have been documented to move thousands of kilometres, they are most frequently observed at a few predictable seasonal aggregation sites. The absence of sharks at the surface during visual surveys has led to the assumption that sharks disperse to places unknown during the ...
E. Fernando Cagua +6 more
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Whale shark economics: a valuation of wildlife tourism in South Ari Atoll, Maldives [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Whale sharks attract large numbers of tourists, divers and snorkelers each year to South Ari Atoll in the Republic of Maldives. Yet without information regarding the use and economic extent of the attraction, it is difficult to prioritize conservation or
Edgar Fernando Cagua +3 more
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