First ever planet-wide analysis shows #conservation work is making a measurable difference anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/05/first-…

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How cool is this? Not all #sharks are big. This jaw is from an adult shark of a small species (spot-tail shark).

How cool is this? Not all #sharks are big. This jaw is from an adult shark of a small species (spot-tail shark).

A year since tagging #SorchaThePorbeagle & #DanuThePorbeagle ? Time for an update! Following their journey over the last 12mths has been mind blowing. Safe to say Danu is Scottish at heart & Sorcha is a boundary breaker, from Ireland to Norway to West Africa 🦈 more to come soon!

And a huge thanks to the community of anglers who made it possible! We wouldn't have been able to do this without the anglers who helped us, took us out on their boats, caught the sharks and shared their knowledge with us. It is an ongoing collaboration which we value hugely. 🦈

An international and cross-institutional collaboration which we hope will open the door to many more. Huge thanks to my coauthors Grace McNicholas (she/her) Andrew Jackson Antonia Klöcker Keno Ferter Claudia Junge Otte Bjelland Biopixel Dr. Austin Gallagher Dr. Neil Hammerschlag Inland Fisheries Ireland Nicholas Payne 🦈

🦈Almost exactly two years, since tagging Danu & Sorcha and I'm very happy to say we have published our paper on these 2 and their Norwegian counterpart! You can now ready about their full movements and their implications for research and management here:

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🎉Celebrating 10 Years of US MBON!
From the 18 – the 21st of March, the MBON is hosting its annual US MBON All-Hands Workshop.
🌊The workshop convenes MBON members & stakeholders to showcase the latest advancements and future plans for assessing & predicting marine biodiversity.

Important Opinion piece here!

People behind the “pings”; limiting authorship threatens collaboration in telemetry - Hawkes - Journal of Fish Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

Boris Worm While the demand for shark fins was historically the greatest threat to sharks, anti-finning regulations did not prevent sharks from being killed, nor did it even prevent fins from being removed and sold, so long as the rest of the shark was not discarded at sea.

Despite anti-finning laws aimed at conserving sharks, a recent study by Boris Worm & colleagues have revealed that global shark mortality rates have surprisingly risen over the past decade, driven in large part by increased demand for shark meat. This is a huge wake-up call.

New spotlight article in Trends in Ecology & Evolution “Shark conservation requires mortality-limiting regulations amid global change” sciencedirect.com/science/articl…