: : National Shark Research Consortium Five Year Technical Report: 2002-2007
The National Shark Research Consortium (NSRC) is a scientific collaboration comprising the following four U.S. shark research organizations: the Pacific Shark Research Center (PSCR) at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML), Moss Landing, California; the Center for Shark Research (CSR) at Mote Marine Laboratory (MML), Sarasota, Florida; the Florida Program for Shark Research (FPSR) at the University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History (UF/FLMNH), Gainesville, Florida; and the Shark Research Program at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), Gloucester Point, Virginia.
Consortium projects involve NMFS-related research activities required for assessing the status of shark stocks, managing U.S. shark fisheries, and helping the U.S. take the leading role in worldwide conservation and management of shark populations. Fisheries-relevant multi-regional research is conducted on shark and ray populations in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, including collaborations with independent, academic and state institutions located along the U.S. Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The primary objectives and service to the public of projects conducted by the NSRC are:
- Conduct and advance basic and applied scientific research on sharks, skates, and rays.
- Communicate scientific research and news about sharks.
- Provide scientific information on sharks to public policy makers.
- Expand scientific cooperation in national and international issues involving sharks and shark biology.
- Increase public understanding of the biology and importance of sharks, skates, and rays.
As a collaborative research consortium, the four organizations of the NSRC are uniquely qualified to conduct leading studies of sharks and their relatives on national, international and global scales. For more information about the individual research organizations, click on the links below.
This web site was prepared by the National Shark Research Consortium under award NA17FL2813 from NOAA/DOC. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NOAA or the DOC.
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