The marine areas of South America (SA) include almost 30,000 km of coastline and
encompass three different oceanic domains—the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Atlantic …

Shark depredation, where a shark partially or completely consumes an animal caught by
fishing gear before it can be retrieved to the fishing vessel, occurs in commercial and …

Fishing spans all oceans and the impact on ocean predators such as sharks and rays is
largely unknown. A lack of data and complicated jurisdictional issues present particular …

Overfishing is arguably the greatest ecological threat facing the oceans, yet catches of many
highly migratory fishes including oceanic sharks remain largely unregulated with poor …

Abstract An Integrated Risk Assessment for Climate Change (IRACC) is developed and
applied to assess the vulnerability of sharks and rays on Australia's Great Barrier Reef …

Carcharhinid sharks can make up a large fraction of the top predators inhabiting tropical
marine ecosystems and have declined in many regions due to intense fishing pressure …

This report provides a review of our knowledge of the bycatches, defined as discarded dead,
from the tropical tuna purse seine fisheries of the world. The major fishing grounds involved …

Sharks are a diverse group of mobile predators that forage across varied spatial scales and
have the potential to influence food web dynamics. The ecological consequences of recent …

Sharks are one of the most threatened groups of marine animals, as high exploitation rates
coupled with low resilience to fishing pressure have resulted in population declines …

Sharks and their relatives, including skates, rays and chimaeras, collectively referred to as
chondrichthyan fishes, 1 form a relatively small (approximately 1,115 described species) …