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Shark News

Editorial details Alphabetical Listing of Shark News Articles by Author
(use the search option on your browser - usually Ctrl+F - to find a specific name or keyword, i.e., to find an article on mako sharks, type in "mako")
A | B | C | D | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | V | W




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A:

Enzo Acuña & Juan C. Villarroel
Bycatch of Sharks and Rays in the Deep Sea Crustacean Fishery off the Chilean Coast

Alberto Amorim
Elasmobranch Research in Brazil

Charles Anderson and Ali Waheed
The Economics of Shark and Ray Watching in the Maldives

Charles Anderson
New Record of Pregnant White Shark, Kenya
No Sharks at Chagos

Charles Anderson, Charles Sheppard, Mark Spalding, and Ron Crosby
Shortage of Sharks at Chagos

Dr David Ardill
Activities Undertaken by FAO Towards the Implementation of CITES Resolution Conf. 9.17 on Sharks

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B:

Elizabeth A. Babcock and Ellen K. Pikitch
Bayesian Methods in Shark Fishery Management

Michael Bailey
NMFS Takes Aggressive Stance to Prevent Continued Overfishing

Ellen Bartlett
A Craze for Shark-Cage Diving has its Dangers --- for Sharks

Ramon Bonfil and Mark W. Saunders
British Columbian Spiny Dogfish Stocks are Doing Fine

Ramon Bonfil
ICES Study Group on Elasmobranch Fishes

Steve Branstetter
Burning the Candle at Both Ends
Management of the US Atlantic Recreational Shark Catch

George H. Burgess
Diving with Elasmobranchs: a Call for Restraint
SBEEL Holds Founding Meeting
Shark Attack Workshop Held in Recife, Brazil
Shark Specialist Group to Have Homepage

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C:

Merry Camhi
Costa Rica's Shark Fishery and Cartilage industry
Editorial
Galapagos Under Siege
Notice of the Next Shark Specialist Group Meeting: August 1996, Brisbane, Australia
Risk-prone management of the US Atlantic shark fishery
Sharks and CITES - an Update
US Management of Large Coastal Sharks

Merry Camhi and Sid F. Cook
Sharks in Galapagos in peril

Merry Camhi and Sonja Fordham
An Update on the CITES Shark Resolution

Jorge M. Campos, José Rodrigo M. Rojas and Raúl Campos
Shark Fisheries in Central America

Jeffrey C. Carrier
Identification and Closure of Nurse Shark Breeding Grounds

Rachel Cavanagh
Painted/Undulate Ray Reproduction - Erratum to January Article
Proposal To List Smalltooth Sawfish As Endangered

Rachel Cavanagh and Sarah Fowler
The 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Elasmobranch Update
CITES Update

Patricia Charvet-Almeida, Maria Lúcia Góes de Araújo, Ricardo S. Rosa and Getúlio Rincón
Neotropical Freshwater Stingrays: Diversity and Conservation Status

Patricia Charvet-Almeida
Sawfish Trade in the North of Brazil

Jeremy Colman
Whale Shark Management Programme, Western Australia

Leonard J.V. Compagno and Sid F. Cook
Freshwater elasmobranchs: a questionable future
Status of the Giant Freshwater Stingray (whipray)
Status of the Kitefin Shark

Sid F. Cook
Cyanide Spill in the Essequibo River, Guyana
Spiny Dogfish Landings Crash in British Columbia

Sid F. Cook, Leonard J.V. Compagno and Madeline Oetinger
Status of the largetooth sawfish

Fábio E. S. Costa, Francisco M. S. Braga, Alberto F. Amorim and Carlos A. Arfelli
Fishery for the Shortfin Mako Isurus oxyrinchus in Southern Brazil

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D:

Dominique Didier
The Fishery Status of Chimaeroids (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali), Summary Report

Andrés Domingo
Bycatch and Lost Catch in the Uruguayan Longline Fishery

Sheldon Dudley
Shark control measures: the Natal Sharks Board and shark conservation

Nick Dulvy and Julian Metcalfe
Data Storage Tags: Individual Behaviour-based Approaches to Migration

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F:

Ian K. Fergusson and Leonard J.V. Compagno
ICES: The International Initiative for Conservation of White Sharks

Ian K. Fergusson
Tracking Sharks by Videocamera - Crittercam: the Video Parasite

Beth Firchau and Warren W. Pryor
The American Elasmobranch Society's Captive Elasmobranch Census

Tony Flaherty
White Shark Protection Agreed in South Australia

Sonja Fordham
CITES action for Sharks
Fishery for US Atlantic Spiny Dogfish Temporarily Halted
NAFO Focus on Northwest Atlantic Elasmobranchs
Report Reveals Pressing International Shark Conservation Needs
United States Bans Shark Finning

Sarah Fowler
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
Elasmobranch Biodiversity and Conservation in Sabah
European Elasmobranch Groups
Recent Sawfish Records
Red List Assessments for Sharks and Rays
Registers of Tagging Programmes
River Shark Discovered in Sabah
Shark Specialist Group News, Meetings
Shark Specialist Group News, Meetings
The Shark Trust
Sharks and CITES - latest news
Shoals of Capricorn Programme 1997/2000
Status of the Basking Shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus)
White Shark Now Protected

Sarah Fowler and Leonard Compagno
Obituary: Sidney F. Cook

Sarah Fowler and Jack Musick
Editorial
Editorial

Malcom P. Francis
Reproductive Strategy of White Sharks, Carcharodon carcharias

Manuel Furtado-Neto and Steve Carr
Molecular Genetics of Some Brazilian Sharks

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G:

Otto B. F. Gadig, Fábio S. Motta and Rafael C. Namora
Projeto Cação: a Study of Sharks Caught by Artisanal Fisheries in Sao Paulo, Southern Brazil

Andrew Gifford
Whale Shark Tagging, South Africa and Seychelles

Samuel H. Gruber
Chairman's Farewell Message
Chairman's message to the Shark Specialist Group
Obituary: Donald R. Nelson

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H:

William C. Hamlett
Reproductive Modes of Elasmobranchs

Fábio H. V. Hazin, Matt K. Broadhurst, Humberto G. Hazin and Paulo Travassos
Historic Trends in Catches of the Brazilian Longline Fishery in the Southwestern Equatorial Atlantic Ocean

Ed Heist
Population Genetics: an Accessory to Tagging Studies

Farid Hemida
The Shark and Skate Fishery in the Algerian Basin: Biological and Technological Aspects

Alan D. Henningsen and Kimberly Morris-Zarneke
Elasmobranch Research and Conservation Efforts at the National Aquarium in Baltimore (NAIB)

Elodie Hudson
Marine Fish Added to List of World's Most Threatened Animals

Robert E. Hueter
Catch/Tag-and-Release: the Conservation Option for Recreational Shark Fishermen
Philopatry, Natal Homing and Localised Stock Depletion in Sharks

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I:

Hajime Ishihara and Kimiya Homma
Manta Rays in the Yaeyama Islands

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J:

Johel Jimenez
Disputed cancer 'cure' spells disaster for Costa Rica's sharks

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K:

Hakan Kabasakal
Shark and Ray Fisheries in Turkey

Bobbie Jo Kelso
New Study Calls for Improved Shark Fisheries Management and Monitoring

Andy Kingman
Satellite Tracking Blue Sharks

Nancy Kohler
NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program

Marcel Kroese
Shark Cage Diving in South Africa - Sustainable Recreational Utilisation?

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L:

Chris Lowe and Brad Wetherbee
Status of Shark Conservation and Fisheries in Hawaii

Carl A. Luer
Sharks and cancer - the real story

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M:

J. Fernando Márquez-Farias
The Artisanal Ray Fishery in the Gulf of California: Development, Fisheries Research and Management Issues

Fernando Marquez
Mexico/Guatemala: a Collaboration in Shark Fisheries

Sérgio Macedo Gomes de Mattos
Coastal Shark Fishery off Pernambuco - Brazil: Is There Any Possibility of Management?

Sergio Mattos
First Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Elasmobranch Study (SBEEL), July 1997

Matthew T. McDavitt
Cipactli's Sword, Tlaltecuhtli's teeth: Deciphering the Sawfish & Shark Offerings in the Aztec Great Temple
The Cultural and Economic Importance of Sawfishes (Family Pristidae)
Lake Nicaragua Revisited: Conversations with a Former Sawfish Fisherman
Sawfishes in the Indigenous Art of Panama

Jack Musick
Critically Endangered Large Coastal Sharks, a Case Study: the Sandbar Shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827)
Editorial

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N:

Giuseppe Notarbartolo-di-Sciara
What Future For Manta Rays?

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O:

Andrea Oliver, Glenn Sant and Sarah Fowler
International Plan of Action for the Conservation & Management of Sharks

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P:

Mike Pawson and Sarah Fowler
International Shark Conservation and Management Initiatives

André Punt and Terry Walker
Australia's Southern Shark Fishery Goes Spatial

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R:

Erich K. Ritter
Evolution of Sharks: Hints for Successful Management Strategies

Michael Rivlin
Spiny dogs - Is History Repeating Itself?

Francisco José Pinto de la Rosa
Painted Ray Raja undulata Reproduction

Debra A. Rose
Social and Economic Importance of Elasmobranchs

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S:

Juan Sabalones
The Role of Aquariums in the Conservation of Sharks

Yvonne Sadovy
Editorial

Yvonne Sadovy
Erratum: Shark Nets in Hong Kong

Carl Safina
Recreational Fishing and Conservation

Margo B. Schulze-Haugen and Karyl K. Brewster-Geisz
Challenges of Atlantic Shark Management for a Viable and Sustainable Shark Fishery

Christina Semeniuk and Thomas Hurlbut
Management and Perceptions of Spiny Dogfish in Atlantic Canada

Bernard Seret
Some of my best friends are sharks!

Colin Simpfendorfer
Western Australia's Dusky Shark Fishery: an Example of a Sustainable Fishery for a Long-lived, Late Maturing, Slow Growing, Low Reproductive Rate Species?

Gregory Skomal and Bradford Chase
Release Mortality Studies in Massachusetts

Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch and Doug Perrine
Letters to the Editors: Responses to "Diving with Elasmobranchs - a Call for Restraint"

John Stevens
Archival Tagging of Sharks in Australia
Whale sharks in Western Australia

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T:

Valerie Taylor
Testing the Shark POD

P. Tous, M. Ducrocq, D. Bucal and E. Feron
Shark Populations are Possibly under Serious Threat in the Bijagos Archipelago (Biosphere Reserve), Guinea Bissau, West Africa

Romy Trono
Philippine Whale Shark and Manta Ray Fisheries

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V:

Philip Vas and Teresa Thorpe
Commercial Landings of Sharks in South-Western England

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W:

Paddy Walker
Fisheries Effects and Management of North Sea Rays
ICES Study Group on Elasmobranch Fishes
Sensitive Skates or Resilient Rays? - a North Sea Perspective

Terry Walker
Localised Stock Depletion: Does it Occur for Sharks?

Terence I. Walker
Victorian Waters a Safe Haven for White Sharks

Doug Warmolts
The American Zoo & Aquarium Association: Elasmobranchs in Public Aquaria

Sabine Wintner
Tagging at the Natal Sharks Board