Be sure to follow our new lab twitter account fish_fisheries_lab. We're a collection of students, ECR's, and Researchers (inc @spinnershark7, Rima Jabado, Cassie Rigby) at James Cook University, working on aspects of fisheries and conservation in regional and global contexts

Our awesome President Brit Finucci will be talking about her fascinating research on deep water sharks in the @CSTFA_JCU seminar series. 🗓 Tomorrow @ 1pm AEST 🚨Members make sure you check your inbox for the zoom link! 🚨

Big congrats to Sushmita Mukherji for publishing her work on Blue Shark life history. Blue sharks are the worlds most heavily caught species, and this info will help WCPFC management particularly. Also great to see @Jon_Smart1's Bayesian approach in action! rdcu.be/cxHM6

Big congrats to Sushmita Mukherji for publishing her work on age and growth estimates for #bluesharks from #PNG using @Jon_Smart1’s Bayesian approach. As a commonly caught species, this info will help WCPFC management. Check it out here: rdcu.be/cxHM6

🚨New paper 🚨 New work out by Sushmita Mukherji & co in Springer Nature. The authors produced preliminary #age and #growth estimates for #bluesharks from #PNG Full paper here ➡️ rdcu.be/cxHM6

Amazing new #sharkscience by Maximilian Hirschfeld

New #sharkscience from Leontine Baje Leontine Baje. Ecological risk assessment of elasmos caught in PNG prawn trawl fishery. Product from ACIAR funded project on PNG shark sustainability. James Cook Uni @CSTFA_JCU CSIRO @spinnershark7 @WillWhitesharks doi.org/10.1002/aqc.36…

A new paper led by Sushmita Mukherji provides age and growth rate estimates for blue sharks off Papua New Guinea. #ElasmoScienceSunday x.com/sush_mukherji/…

Are you an #Honours, #Masters or #PhD student researching #chondrichthyans in the Oceania region? For only $20 AUD you can become a student member of OCS & become eligible for our yearly Student Research Grant! And that's just 1 of the perks! Join today oceaniasharks.org.au/join-or-renew!

🚨🚨Conference Announcement🚨🚨 We are pleased to announce that OCS will be holding a virtual conference in 2022!!! 🗓️ Dates: 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 & 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 📰Abstracts due by 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 See below for more details⬇️

🚨🚨Conference Announcement🚨🚨 We are pleased to announce that OCS will be holding a virtual conference in 2022!!! 🗓️ Dates: 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 & 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 📰Abstracts due by 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 See below for more details⬇️

🚨OCS Virtual Conference News🚨 The conference is FREE for members in good standing 🗓️Dates: 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 & 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 💡Abstracts due by 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 See below for more details 🔽

Are you an #Honours, #Masters or #PhD student researching #chondrichthyans in the Oceania region? OCS student membership is only $20 AUD a year & comes with a lot of benefits! Make sure to purchase a subscription plan after signing up to become a member! oceaniasharks.com.au/plans-pricing

Extremely pleased and excited to share the first chapter of my PhD thesis! frontiersin.org/.../fmars.2022…

🚨 The 2022 OCS conference is 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄!!! 🚨 Please check your inbox for the email with instructions on how to access the talks (this includes speakers). We kick off at 𝟭𝟬:𝟬𝟬 𝗔𝗠 (𝗔𝗘𝗗𝗧) with plenary speaker Juney Ward See you all tomorrow!!! #OCSVirtual2022

Amazing plenary talk by our speaker 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗱. -She talks about the #cultural & #economic importance of sharks and rays. -How the #Pacific are stepping up to strengthen #conservation measures for #shark and #ray species. #OCSVirtual2022

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗿 📢 Curious to know what 2021 OCS Student Research Award winner Bailee Woolley has been up to? Well, you can read all about her work on the Melbourne #skate in the upcoming OCS Newsletter!!!