Ocean News

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…

The coastal waters of Tanzania provide distinctive habitats for sharks, rays and other marine fishes which contribute to the communities’ livelihood. However, the populations of sharks and rays are declining due to unsustainable fishing activities. In Tanzania especially…

During the week of the 14-20th of October, the members of Associació LAMNA participated on the 23rd Scientific Meeting of the European Elasmobranch Association, held in Rende (Italy), at the University of Calabria. As a break from looking…

In the Marine Genomic Biodiversity Lab (Fig. 1), led by Dr Nikolaos Schizas, we are studying the diversity of sharks of Puerto Rico.  Sharks are apex predators in most marine ecosystems, yet there is a near-complete absence of…