The measurable impacts of small-scale fisheries on coastal marine ecosystems and
vulnerable megafauna species (elasmobranchs, marine mammals and sea turtles) within …

Manta and devil rays (mobulids) are filter feeding elasmobranchs with extreme K-selective
life histories found circumglobally from temperate to tropical waters. Their vulnerability to …

Understanding how individual behavior shapes the structure and ecology of populations is
key to species conservation and management. Like many elasmobranchs, manta rays are …

Assessing the foraging ecology of a threatened species is necessary to understand their
movement behaviour and habitat use patterns, which are essential for developing effective …

The decline in numbers of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) throughout their range has
highlighted the need for improved information on their spatial ecology in order to design …

Globally, reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) are in decline and are particularly vulnerable to
exploitation and disturbance at aggregation sites. Here, passive acoustic telemetry and a …

Manta ray populations worldwide are vulnerable to sublethal injuries resulting from human
activities, eg, entanglement in fishing line and boat strikes, which have the potential to …

In the eastern Pacific Ocean, the tropical tuna purse-seine fishery incidentally captures high
numbers of five mobulid bycatch species; all of which are classified as mortalities by the Inter …

Abstract The Chagos Archipelago's vast no‐take marine protected area (MPA, 640,000 km2)
provides refuge for elasmobranchs facing unsustainable depletion by fisheries …

The whale shark Rhincodon typus is an endangered, highly migratory species with a wide,
albeit patchy, distribution through tropical oceans. Ten aerial survey flights along the …