Limited resources and increasing environmental concerns have prompted calls to identify
the critical questions that most need to be answered to advance conservation, thereby …

Abstract The Potential Biological Removal (PBR) level serves as a threshold for
management of marine mammal–fishery interactions under the US Marine Mammal …

Bigg's Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) were encountered and photo-identified in British
Columbia from 1975 to 2019 during dedicated and opportunistic research excursions …

Within just one human lifetime, the underlying motivation to conserve whales, dolphins and
porpoises has shifted from being purely practical and anthropogenic to something much …

The northwest Atlantic subspecies of gray seal (Halicheorus grypus grypus) has been
increasing for more than a half century and has reestablished breeding colonies in …

The world's most endangered small cetaceans are found in countries many miles from
Sarasota Bay and its common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Information on the …

Consistent evaluation and new recommendations for action are required of protective
measures to address threats that were unrecognised or non-existent until recently. Global …

We collated and synthesized information on 1,226 Elasmobranch species (ie, sharks, rays,
and skates) globally from a wide range of sources. We obtained curated and standardized …

A management strategy evaluation (MSE) is used to estimate success at achieving
conservation goals for marine mammals while also aiming to minimize impacts on …

Many species and populations of marine megafauna are undergoing substantial declines,
while many are also very poorly understood. Even basic information on species presence is …