More than 600 photographs and drawings, including more than 330 photographs in full
color, many of them underwater shots, illustrate this field identification guide to the …

Shark attacks are rare but are associated with a high morbidity and significant mortality. We
report the case of a patient's survival from a shark attack and their subsequent emergency …

A principal scale for identifying maturity stages of cartilaginous fishes is proposed for the first
time. It applies to oviparous sharks, skates and holocephalans and mainly aplacental …

It has gradually developed into an undisputable fact that sharkskin surface has the obvious
drag reduction effect compared with the absolutely smooth skins, and it has been put into …

The shark control programs of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland and KwaZulu-Natal
(KZN) are compared in an attempt to determine whether the fishing effort applied in the KZN …

References This volume had its origin in a Symposium on the Reproduction and
Development of Cartilaginous Fishes that was held at the annual meetings of the American …

On the investigation of biomimetic drag-reducing surface, direct replication of the firm
scarfskins on low-resistance creatures to form biomimetic drag-reducing surfaces with …

Marine prolected areas (MPAs) can be c1assified jnto lmee broad categories according to
lheir main objectives: ecological (conservation of biodiversity and habitals), economic …

Lt was expressed as precaudal length in cm at age t. The reproductive condition was
examined from 136 males and 85 females. Maturation was deter mined to be when …

Two biogeographical units are generally recognized in the present shelf area of Argentina:
the Magellanian and Argentinian Provinces. The two provinces differ in their fossil record …