This status review report was conducted in response to a petition to list the scalloped
hammerhead shark under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)(WildEarth Guardians and …

Artisanal fisheries account for up to 80% of elasmobranch fishing activity in Mexican waters,
yet details associated with fishing effort and species composition are generally unavailable …

Artisanal fisheries in Mexico account for approximately 40% of the total national catch. In
2009, Baja California Sur (BCS) had the second largest catch of elasmobranchs on the …

Mexico is home to a broad biodiversity of shark species, and more than half of the sharks in
Mexican waters are distributed in the Mexican Pacific, with over 62 species recorded. This …

Abstract The Gulf of California (GC) is one of the most historically important regions in
Mexico for shark fisheries. However, detailed historical shark landings are not available …

Selenium and mercury were evaluated in muscle, liver, kidney, brain, and the stomach
contents of juvenile scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna lewini. Se: Hg molar ratios were …

Populations of hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna and Eusphyra) have declined in many regions
of the world. Six of the eight hammerheads known to date are distributed in the Mexican …

Sharks have been of great cultural and socioeconomic importance in Mexico since the late
19th century, when the first fisheries were prosecuted in the Gulf of California to export fins to …

Managing pelagic shark stocks requires information about the movement patterns and
fisheries interactions of all age classes, including young-of-the-year (YOY; age-0), which, for …

Feeding studies, since traditional stomach content analysis to stable isotopes analyses,
provides insights into the trophic relationship among the apex predators and the ecosystems …