Ocean News

We are thrilled to announce that D’Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll in Seychelles are officially protected! As the Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF), we are excited to announce that waters surrounding D’Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll in Seychelles have been declared marine protection areas as part of the…

Sometimes a new species (or two) are hiding in plain sight. A recently-published scientific paper has described two species of sawshark new to science. And yet, specimens of one of these species have been housed in museums for years! Recent sampling efforts in Madagascar and Zanzibar, as well as examinations…

SOSF is proud to announce that we are now a cooperating partner for International the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks. Last month, Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) attended the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of…

Hundreds of citizen science sightings reveal opportunities to protect Australia’s four iconic sawfish species New hotspots for green sawfish in Weipa and Karratha. A sawfish nursery in the Brisbane River until about 1950. Evidence that sawfish have not completely disappeared from NSW waters, with a Newcastle sighting. Juvenile sawfish reported…

Last year, 18 species of sharks and rays were listed on CITES Appendix II. This raised an alarming red flag over these species, and made us all aware that we have a big problem. Putting wedgefishes, giant guitarfishes and shortfin mako sharks on CITES Appendix II commits governments to regulating…

Megan has worked with both BC Whales and Orcalab since 2012. She now manages one of the camps for Orcalab with a focus on outreach and video projects. It’s around 5 am when I begin to stir. The…

The last trip to Guyana left us with a much clearer sense of the shark fisheries around the country. After visiting several landing-sites it is clear that the largest one is Meadow Bank Wharf, in Georgetown, where more…

The first thing you need to know about shore-based shark fishing is that sand will get everywhere. In your car, in your shoes, in your shower, somehow, it even gets into your hair. Having done most of our…

There has been a steady increase in the number of studies looking into the movement ecology of various species in marine ecosystems. While movement can be studied or inferred in multiple ways, the most prominent techniques involve telemetry,…

With travel support from the Shark Conservation Fund, my graduate student Annmarie Fearing and I were able to go to the U.K. to collect tissue samples from sawfish saws with our SawSearch partner, Kelcee Smith (Louisiana State University…

How many times have you observed a predator perform a natural feeding event? The answer is probably not very many. This is because observing natural predation events in nature is rare due to the limited time we spend…

“A teardrop-shape in the Ocean” – this is what we were looking for back in April while surveying the reef from the roof top of our Dhoni, with nothing more than a pair of polarized sunglasses, a focused…