Sharks and people: Insight into the global practices of tourism operators and their attitudes to shark behaviour

K Richards, BC O'Leary, CM Roberts, R Ormond… - Marine pollution …, 2015 - Elsevier
Shark tourism is a popular but controversial activity. We obtained insights into this industry
via a global e-mailed questionnaire completed by 45 diving/snorkelling operators who …

Shark ecotourism in Mexico: Scientific research, conservation, and contribution to a Blue Economy

AM Cisneros-Montemayor, EE Becerril-García… - Advances in marine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Shark ecotourism has the potential to contribute significantly to local and national
economies and conservation, though this depends on a concerted effort to implement …

In the Water with White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias): Participants' Beliefs toward Cage-diving in Australia

K Apps, K Dimmock, D Lloyd, C Huveneers - Anthrozoös, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
White shark (Carcharodon carcharias) cage-diving tourism is a controversial activity that
provokes emotional and often opposing points of view. With increasing demand for shark …

Social network analysis reveals the subtle impacts of tourist provisioning on the social behavior of a generalist marine apex predator

DMP Jacoby, BS Fairbairn, BS Frazier… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Shark dive ecotourism is a lucrative industry in many regions around the globe. In some
cases, sharks are provisioned using bait, prompting increased research on how baited dives …

Behavioural responses of white sharks to specific baits during cage diving ecotourism

EE Becerril-García, EM Hoyos-Padilla, P Micarelli… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
This study describes the effect of different baits on the attraction, surface behaviour and
conditioning of white sharks Carcharodon carcharias during local ecotourism activities. The …

Spatial and temporal habitat use by white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at an aggregation site in southern New Zealand

MP Francis, C Duffy, W Lyon - Marine and Freshwater Research, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Subadult and adult white sharks aggregate seasonally near pinniped colonies in several
parts of the globe. The time spent there may represent the most vulnerable part of their …

Influence of shark tourism on the activity and physiological condition of a non-focal pelagic fish

TM Clarke, SK Whitmarsh, C Champion… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Wildlife tourism can have adverse effects on the behaviours and movements of animals, with
implications for the health and fitness of individuals and populations. We used acoustic …

[HTML][HTML] Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark

A Gooden, TM Clarke, L Meyer, C Huveneers - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildlife tourism is expanding globally, driving the need to quantify its potential impacts.
Studies on the effects of marine tourism on wildlife have focused on documenting …

Are some sharks more social than others? Short-and long-term consistencies in the social behavior of juvenile lemon sharks

JS Finger, TL Guttridge, ADM Wilson… - Behavioral ecology and …, 2018 - Springer
Despite substantial research interest in understanding individual-level consistency in
behavioral attributes, significant knowledge gaps remain across traits and taxa. For …

Effects of Food Provisioning on the Daily Ration and Dive Site Use of Great Hammerhead Sharks, Sphyrna mokarran

V Heim, F Dhellemmes, MJ Smukall… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Wildlife provisioning is popular, economically valuable, and a rapidly growing part of marine
tourism, with great potential to benefit conservation. However, it remains controversial due to …