Validating the use of baited remote underwater video surveys for assessing the diversity, distribution and abundance of sharks in the Bahamas

EJ Brooks, KA Sloman, DW Sims… - Endangered Species …, 2011 - int-res.com
Baited remote underwater video surveys (BRUVS) are a novel, non-invasive method of
generating relative abundance indices for a number of marine species, including sharks …

Baited Remote Underwater Video surveys undercount sharks at high densities: insights from full-spherical camera technologies

JP Kilfoil, AJ Wirsing, MD Campbell, JJ Kiszka… - Marine Ecology …, 2017 - int-res.com
Video surveys are an essential tool for monitoring marine communities. Their use to study
elasmobranch populations has dramatically increased over the last decade. However, the …

Use of stereo baited remote underwater video systems to estimate the presence and size of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)

D Harasti, KA Lee, R Laird, R Bradford… - Marine and Freshwater …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Stereo baited remote underwater video systems (stereo-BRUVs) are commonly used to
assess fish assemblages and, more recently, to record the localised abundance and size of …

Calibration of pelagic stereo‐BRUV s and scientific longline surveys for sampling sharks

J Santana‐Garcon, M Braccini… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the ecology of sharks and other highly mobile marine species often
relies on fishery‐dependent data or extractive fishery‐independent techniques that can …

Evaluating the performance of methods for estimating the abundance of rapidly declining coastal shark populations

DJ McCauley, KA McLean, J Bauer… - Ecological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Accurately surveying shark populations is critical to monitoring precipitous ongoing declines
in shark abundance and interpreting the effects that these reductions are having on …

BRUVS reveal locally extinct shark and the way for shark monitoring in Brazilian oceanic islands

CR Pimentel, R Andrades, CEL Ferreira… - Journal of Fish …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Here we present records of sharks obtained using baited remote underwater stereo‐video
systems (stereo‐BRUVS) at two Brazilian oceanic islands. Fourteen of the 60 deployments …

Spatial patterns of distribution and relative abundance of coastal shark species in the Galapagos Marine Reserve

D Acuña-Marrero, ANH Smith… - Marine Ecology …, 2018 - int-res.com
A better understanding of the patterns of distribution and abundance of sharks and their
potential biological and environmental drivers is essential to develop and evaluate spatial …

Ongoing decline of shark populations in the Eastern Red Sea

JLY Spaet, GB Nanninga, ML Berumen - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on the abundance and diversity of Red Sea elasmobranchs is
notoriously scarce, even though sharks are among the most profitable fisheries of the region …

How robust are estimates of coral reef shark depletion?

JR Rizzari, AJ Frisch, SR Connolly - Biological Conservation, 2014 - Elsevier
On coral reefs, diver-surveys of shark abundance indicate that populations are severely
depleted, even in no-take zones with low-levels of illegal fishing, but are protected by strictly …

Application of baited remote underwater video surveys to quantify spatial distribution of elasmobranchs at an ecosystem scale

J White, CA Simpfendorfer, AJ Tobin… - Journal of Experimental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding the distribution of mobile species across broad spatial scales and a variety of
habitat types is essential in developing sound conservation strategies. The applicability of …