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🌊🧬Our new preprint on population genetics of bowmouth guitarfish in the Northwest Indian Ocean led by Marja Kipperman with Blue Resources Trust Rima Jabado Julia Spaet @Alifa_Haque biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thanks to Save Our Seas and Shark Conservation Fund for supporting this work.

Rarely witnessed is the gathering of over 50 endangered Sicklefin Devil Rays! Despite the mystery shrouding these congregations, the waters of the Canary Islands offer a unique opportunity for a better understanding. More in Alicia Rodríguez Juncá’s blog: saveourseas.com/update/placing…

The shark fisheries of Western Australia: . Have fished for sharks since the 1940s . It supplies local fish & chip shops & restaurants . Revenue originates from the domestic sale of flesh . Management measures translated in substantial reduction of vessels publish.csiro.au/MF/MF23094

Nice to see these two together at the OCS meetings

To wrap up #OceaniaSharks2024 we had Leontine Baje give an awesome plenary on the PNG Shark and Ray project and her academic journey!

The NDF tool, launched by UNEP-WCMC and IUCN provides easy-to-access key datasets for CITES Authorities also help decision-makers ensure that international wildlife trade is sustainable. Learn more about the tool here: tinyurl.com/bd4rm7cd UN Environment Programme

👏Congratulations to JCU Postdoctoral Research Fellow mickgrant.bsky.social who has been awarded the Huntingford Medal by the fsbi. The medal is awarded for the best research paper published in the Journal of Fish Biology by an Early Career Researcher. 📄👉shorturl.at/d47r4

New #sharkscience for #FlatSharkFriday: Evidence of environmental niche separation between threatened mobulid rays #NewZealand Open Access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Shark Awareness Day is coming... and this year we'll be discussing Gulper Sharks and the conservation threats facing deep sea sharks! Stay tuned!

Today is #SharkAwarenessDay ! This Shark Awareness Day, we're focusing on Gulper Sharks and threats facing deep sea sharks! Learn more about them from the graphics below, and please share! Images by Eloisa Pinheiro Learn more about us and the work we do: iucnssg.org/faq.html

Today! #CITES scientific experts continue their discussions on the international #trade and #conservation of #fauna species, including: 🦈sharks & rays 🪸stony corals 🐘elephants Watch the #AC33🐾livestream 📺 youtube.com/@CITES/live

Published today! These new @FAOFish reports are a paradigm shift in how we understand #shark and #ray commodities through value chain analysis These reports were put together with valued partners #SDG14 #Shark #fisheries 🧵1/5

This CITES #AC33 side event "Hidden threats beyond the fin trade: Ongoing trades impacting #sharks & #rays", co-hosted by #Maldives & #Senegal will discuss various trade streams involving these species, their uses and #CITES role. 🦈🌊

CITES WCS Maldives Mission GVA Brit Finucci Manta Trust IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group Global FinPrint NIWA Luke Warwick Dalhousie University Fisheries & Aquaculture IUCN Species Survival Commission Rima Jabado Discussing the new phenomena of fishing in deep water #shark liver oil, used for boat maintenance, heating fuel, biodiesel, health supplements, beauty products & vaccine adjuvants, Brit Finucci stresses the practice is driving targeted fishing. 🦈 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Cool new research from Charlie Huveneers led by TomClarke about effectiveness of personal shark deterrents (against the big 3). nature.com/articles/s4159…

❔DID YOU KNOW❔ One characteristic of deep-sea sharks is their 'glowing' green eyes, but what causes this? ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Listen to our deep-sea shark episode now: bit.ly/3LbASU2 📸Georgia Wells

IUCN provides updated risk extinction assessments for an additional 51 species of sharks and rays -

🦈 CITES Animals Committee #AC33 adopted all the recommendations from a new review co-authored by TRAFFIC. It finds inconsistent reporting by CITES Parties is a major problem in saving threatened #shark and #ray species. Read the report 👉 loom.ly/NA7LJLk

Most incredible science discovery this decade! Changes every textbook. Manganese nodules produce oxygen in the #deepsea!!? ⁦These are the nodules targeted for mining… they make oxygen… 😳🤯⁩ ⁦The Deep-Sea Podcast⁩ ⁦Deep-Sea Biology Society⁩ ⁦Rebecca Morelle⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

⚠️NEW EPISODE⚠️ This time we're talking about the underdogs (under-fish?!) of the cartilaginous fishes: the chimaera! Dr Brit Finucci talks us through the biology of these little oddballs, and how they differ from sharks and rays. Listen now: bit.ly/3SzIPq2