Research priorities to support effective manta and devil ray conservation

JD Stewart, FRA Jaine, AJ Armstrong… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Manta and devil rays are filter-feeding elasmobranchs that are found circumglobally in
tropical and subtropical waters. Although relatively understudied for most of the Twentieth …

Contemporary and emerging fisheries in The Bahamas—Conservation and management challenges, achievements and future directions

KD Sherman, AD Shultz, CP Dahlgren… - Fisheries …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The harvest of marine resources has long‐standing cultural and economic importance to
The Bahamas and other small island developing states. Tourists and residents place a …

Spatial connectivity and drivers of shark habitat use within a large marine protected area in the Caribbean, The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary

AJ Gallagher, ON Shipley… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as potentially important conservation tools for
the conservation of biodiversity and mitigation of climate impacts. Among MPAs, a large …

Emerging challenges to shark-diving tourism

AJ Gallagher, CPM Huveneers - Marine Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Shark-diving tourism has become a global phenomenon and is widely promoted to
contribute to pro-conservation attitudes by dispelling myths and exposing tourists to sharks …

Regional-scale variability in the movement ecology of marine fishes revealed by an integrative acoustic tracking network

C Friess, SK Lowerre-Barbieri, GR Poulakis… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
Marine fish movement plays a critical role in ecosystem functioning and is increasingly
studied with acoustic telemetry. Traditionally, this research has focused on single species …

Movement patterns and habitat use of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) across ontogeny in the Gulf of Mexico

MJ Ajemian, JM Drymon, N Hammerschlag… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is globally distributed with established coastal and open-
ocean movement patterns in many portions of its range. While all life stages of tiger sharks …

Provisioning ecotourism does not increase tiger shark site fidelity

C Séguigne, M Bègue, C Meyer, J Mourier, É Clua - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
A perennial criticism of provisioning ecotourism is that it alters the natural behavior and
ecology of the target species by providing an artificial food source. Here we evaluate its …

Multi-year movements of adult and subadult bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas): philopatry, connectivity, and environmental influences

MJ Rider, LH McDonnell, N Hammerschlag - Aquatic Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Understanding the movement ecology of marine species is important for conservation
management and monitoring their responses to environmental change. In this study, adult …

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 …

Individual residency behaviours and seasonal long-distance movements in acoustically tagged Caribbean reef sharks in the Cayman Islands

J Kohler, M Gore, R Ormond, B Johnson, T Austin - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Understanding how reef-associated sharks use coastal waters through their ontogeny is
important for their effective conservation and management. This study used the horizontal …