Evidence for systemic age underestimation in shark and ray ageing studies

AV Harry - Fish and Fisheries, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies have now demonstrated that the most common method of ageing sharks
and rays, counting growth zones on calcified structures, can underestimate true age. I …

Perspectives on elasmobranch life‐history studies: a focus on age validation and relevance to fishery management

GM Cailliet - Journal of Fish Biology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Life‐history (age, growth, age validation, reproduction and demography) studies of
elasmobranchs date back to the middle of the last century with major early contributions …

[HTML][HTML] Vertebral bomb radiocarbon suggests extreme longevity in white sharks

LL Hamady, LJ Natanson, GB Skomal, SR Thorrold - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Conservation and management efforts for white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) remain
hampered by a lack of basic demographic information including age and growth rates …

Identifying important juvenile Dusky Shark habitat in the northwest Atlantic Ocean using acoustic telemetry and spatial modeling

CW Bangley, TH Curtis, DH Secor… - Marine and Coastal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Highly mobile species can be challenging for fisheries management and conservation due
to large home ranges combined with dependence on discrete habitat areas where they can …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-model approach on growth estimation and association with life history trait for elasmobranchs

KM Liu, CB Wu, SJ Joung, WP Tsai… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Age and growth information is essential for stock assessment of fish, and growth model
selection may influence the accuracy of stock assessment and subsequent fishery …

Estimating IUCN Red List population reduction: JARA—A decision‐support tool applied to pelagic sharks

RB Sherley, H Winker, CL Rigby, PM Kyne… - Conservation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List is the global
standard for quantifying extinction risk but assessing population reduction (criterion A) of …

[HTML][HTML] Reliable growth estimation from mark–recapture tagging data in elasmobranchs

M Dureuil, WH Aeberhard, M Dowd, SA Pardo… - Fisheries …, 2022 - Elsevier
The somatic growth of individuals governs many aspects of a species' life history and is an
important parameter in the assessment of populations. Population growth parameters are …

Age, growth and maturity of the pelagic thresher Alopias pelagicus and the scalloped hammerhead Sphyrna lewini

M Drew, WT White, Dharmadi, AV Harry… - Journal of Fish …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Indonesia has the greatest reported chondrichthyan catches worldwide, with c. 110,000 t
caught annually. The pelagic thresher (Alopias pelagicus) and scalloped hammerhead …

At-vessel and post-release mortality of the dusky (Carcharhinus obscurus) and sandbar (C. plumbeus) sharks after longline capture

H Marshall, G Skomal, PG Ross, D Bernal - Fisheries Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Since the mid 1990's, stock assessments of shark populations in the northwest Atlantic by
the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have indicated that sandbar (Carcharhinus …

Age and growth of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in the western North Atlantic Ocean

LJ Natanson, GB Skomal - Marine and Freshwater Research, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Age and growth estimates for the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in the western North
Atlantic Ocean (WNA) were derived from band pair counts on the vertebral centra of 81 …