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Some baby sharks eat their unborn siblings in utero, while others spend 100 years in childhood. Sink your teeth into the weird world of these juvenile wonders of the deep.
Through regulation, enforcement and monitoring, fisheries management can lead to recoveries in shark and ray populations.
Rhino rays, which are close relative of sharks, are some of the most fascinating – and most threatened – fishes that you’ve never heard of.
Having a flexible and adaptable management system is necessary to sustainably manage fisheries, especially in times of a rapidly changing climate.
Humans rely on the ocean for food, jobs and other resources, but these systems are being stressed to the brink.
When you buy seafood, you can’t be sure it is what it says it is – and Australian wholesalers are resistant to new traceability technologies.
Putting a dollar value on nature has staunch opponents who say it’s morally wrong, but without it, building dams and other infrastructure can run roughshod over vital ecosystems.
Over 100 shark and ray species were recently added to an international treaty, known as the CITES list, to protect them from the threat of unsustainable and illegal trade.
Countries have voted to limit the international shark trade, but this fails to account for the diversity in fishing contexts around the world.
A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.
The warming observed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is causing upheaval in the balance of the species living there. That is having direct repercussions on the commercial fishing sector.
Facing human threats, Mumbai’s Koli community are taking risk reduction into their own hands – other vulnerable coastal settlements should take note.
Sharks are much more severely threatened by humans than vice versa. A marine biologist explains how people can help protect sharks and why some strategies are more effective than others.
Traditional food provenance methods are typically designed to identify one species at a time. So we worked out a new approach, as part of a broader effort to combat seafood fraud and illegal fishing.
Only 200 years ago, Australian waters were full of oyster and shellfish reefs. Then they collapsed. Now large scale restoration efforts are underway.
There is a need for nuanced discussions around the role of fisheries subsidies — even those that may be nominally harmful — to avoid further inequity and marginalization of small-scale fishers.
The influx of migrants from West Africa must be viewed as a manifestation of problems in the countries of origin.
Humans have failed to take good care of the ocean — and the environment at large — because we undervalue its goods and services.
Suspending mackerel and spring herring fishing in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence will impact the fishing industry on many levels.
Top contributors
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Director & Professor, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia
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Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Faculty Research Associate in Marine Biology, Arizona State University
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Affiliated Researcher, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Southampton
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Postdoctoral research fellow in Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Lecturer, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Marine Conservation, University of Exeter
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Professor of Marine Biology and Conservation, Bournemouth University
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Postdoctoral researcher, marine ecology, University of Adelaide
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Professor, Program Director of Stretton Institute, Program Director of Environment Insitute, University of Adelaide
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Professeur et Chaire de recherche du Canada en écologie halieutique, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
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Professor, University of Canberra
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Wen Family Chair in Conservation, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor in Fisheries, University of Canberra
