The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 1: June 1994
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Shark Organisations Worldwide
American Elasmobranch Society
The American Elasmobranch Society (AES) was founded in 1983 as a
nonprofit organization to advance the study and understanding of living
and fossil elasmobranchs - the sharks, skates and rays, as well as the
closely related chimaeras. The Society was born of the need for a
common forum and international clearinghouse for researchers working
on elasmobranchs.
The AES publishes its Newsletter four times a year, produces a
membership directory and occasionally a bibliography of elasmobranch
research. It also runs an email Elasmolink, which mainly has items of
American interest, and a bulletin board. The email address for this is:
elasmo-l-request@umassd.edu.subscribeelasmo.l.(your email name and
address).
There are two categories of membership: 'standard' for active researchers,
and non-voting 'affiliate' status for those not currently professionally
involved in research.
For membership or additional information, contact either Dr Jeffrey
C. Carrier, AES Secretary & Editor, Department of Biology, Albion
College, Albion, MI 49224, USA. Tel. (+1) 517-629-0389. Fax. (+1) 517-
629-0509, or Dr Robert E. Hueter, AES President, Director, Center for
Shark Research, Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Thompson Parkway
Sarasota, FL 34236, USA. Tel. (+1) 813-388-4441. Fax. (+1) 813-388-4312.
Japanese Society for Elasmobranch Studies
The Society was set up in 1977, and now has 133 Japanese and 37 foreign
members. An annual report is produced. Contact the Secretary, Dr
Taniuchi, for further Information at University of Tokyo, Department of
Fisheries, Yavoi, Bunkvo-ku, Tokyo 113, lauan.
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