The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 12: November 1998
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Sharks and Their Relatives: Ecology and Conservation
M. Camhi, S. Fowler, J. Musick, A. Bräutigam and S. Fordham. 1998.
Occasional Paper of the IUCN Species Survival Commission No. 20. iv +
39 pp. No illustrations. £10 or $15 plus postage and packing (20% surface,
40% overseas airmail) from Shark News Editors (see addresses on p. 16).
An introduction to the ecology, status and conservation of sharks and
their relatives for a general audience. It draws attention to their unique
biology and makes the case for expanded political and financial investment
in research, monitoring, and precautionary management for all fisheries
taking sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras as part of their catch. Shark
fisheries cannot be managed sustainably, nor shark populations remain
viable, in the absence of new conservation and management initiatives.
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