Packing #sawfish outfits and jewelry for a week of events celebrating #InternationalSawfishDay! To find an event near you visit facebook.com/groups/9133500…

Happy International Sawfish Day! Did you know that 5 species of sawfish are on our EDGE sharks and rays list! Featured today is the Green Sawfish, the largest species of sawfish, growing up to 24 feet in length! #InternationalSawfishDay

Today is International Sawfish Day! Did you know that the smalltooth sawfish was the first marine fish to be listed under the Endangered Species Act? Watch the video, and visit our website, to learn more about this species: bit.ly/48ORLi1 #InternationalSawfishDay #ESA50

Masters student setting up major research field trails, investigating river ecology food webs CRC for Developing Northern Australia James Cook Uni CSE @JCU Dr. Amrit Kumar Mishra Paula Cartwright TropWATER

Bringing a shark to a knife fight: 7,000-year-old shark-tooth knives discovered in Indonesia theconversation.com/bringing-a-sha… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Michelle Langley

Thanks to Synchronicity Earth & Save Our Seas, PNG sawfish conservation efforts are ramping up. Along with our children's book sawfishbook.org, we're handing out shirts and hats. Aiming to create awareness and start a dialogue with fishers... their actions could prevent extinction

Project leader John Mohan proposes an alternative approach to understanding elasmobranch life history, by using natural chemical tags. From a shark's mineralised vertebrae we can understand where a shark has travelled and how it's moved during its life. saveourseas.com/update/shark-a…

🚨📦🐟Today is a milestone for me as over the last week I've published my 1st, 2nd and 3rd R packages on CRAN! Thanks to everyone who has used them so far and pushed me to publish them properly. Details on each of them are down below. 1/n

Elemental analysis of shark and ray vertebrae support element-environment use patterns observes in teleost otoliths @Mickkgrant Save Our Seas @sharkcolin #JFB doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15…

Australian capacity in doing shark assessments is high explains Colin Simpfendorfer 👉#Australian government has invested in doing NDFs for #shark species listed in Panama at CITES #COP19

Vulnerability assessment of Indo-Pacific non-marine sharks & rays. Large-bodied euryhaline species most vulnerable. Assessment had strong congruence with IUCN extinction risk assessments. Framework designed to be applied to other freshwater cons contexts👍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

New #sharkscience from Shiori Kanno. Mangrove use by sharks and rays: a review. int-res.com/abstracts/meps… Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS) OceaniaSharks Elasmobranch Society Michelle Heupel

Murky waters: Assessing the vulnerabilities of Indo-West Pacific non-marine elasmobranchs to inform future conservation planning priorities buff.ly/3Rlp7gf

IMAS researcher Dr Maddie Green has developed a new inexpensive & accurate way to monitor species being caught in our global fisheries, and it’s all about forensics! With DNA extracted from holding tank brine water, all but the rarest species can be ID-ed: bit.ly/Tas-fisheries-…

I have 5 Bluesky invite codes available if anyone wants to start the year by jumping over there... DM me

Congrats Rebecca Bateman-John for a great first paper highlighting a global hotspot for threatened #rhinorays in Western Australia - #ExmouthGulf keeps on giving! doi.org/10.1002/aqc.40… Murdoch University Research Freshwater Fish. Thanks Protect Ningaloo, Cape Conservation Group, Minderoo Foundation

Following the incidental introduction of tilapia, fishers and market vendors in PNG's Kikori River see tilapia as an easily caught and sellable fish with high palatability compared to native species. Time will tell if these perceptions are up held link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The SCS is excited to announce the 2024 Request for Proposals for a #Sawfishresearch and #Conservation Small Research Grant. Please see the attached document for the proposal information, submission instructions, and grant application form. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

Applications for the 2024 SCS Small Research Grant are due in ONE WEEK (AUG 30th)! Visit our website to submit your proposal today! sawfishconservationsociety.org #sawfishresearch #sawfishconservation #sawfisheducation #sawfishoutreach