Parturition time for the Blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), in Southwestern Atlantic

Inclusion of South American samples reveals new population structuring of the blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) in the western Atlantic

Carcharhinus limbatus has a cosmopolitan distribution and marked genetic structuring, mainly because of its philopatric behavior. However, analysis of this structuring has not previously included South American populations. In the present study, we analyzed a sample of adult individuals collected on the northern coast of Brazil and compared the sequences of the mitochondrial control region with...

International shark fin markets and shark management: an integrated market preference–cohort analysis of the blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus)

The increasing demand for shark fins in Asia, and the publicity resulting from finning and discarding live sharks, has generated concern regarding the sustainability of the world’s shark populations. These concerns can be attributed to the shark’s life history, which is characterized by a pattern of slow growth, late maturity, few offspring, and long life, making populations vulnerable to overe...

On the record of the sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus Nardo, 1827 (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) in the middle Adriatic Sea

Estimated Age Class Structure of Juvenile Oceanic Blacktip Sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) in Hilo Bay, Hawai’i

Estimation of Mortality of Juvenile Blacktip Sharks, Carcharhinus limbatus, Within a Nursery Area Using Telemetry Data

A population of young blacktip sharks was monitored over three years to determine their mortality rates using a series of acoustic listening stations. Based on these data it was possible to use several mortality estimators, including indirect life -history based methods and direct methods such as the Kaplan-Meier and SURVIV methods, to estimate natural, fishing and total mortality. Kaplan-Meier...