Skin lesions caused by Dermophthirius penneri (Monogenea: Microbothriidae) on wild-caught blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus).

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

Redescription of Dinemoura discrepans Cressey, 1967 (Copepoda: Pandaridae) parasitic on four species of sharks off southeast coast of Taiwan.

Dinemoura discrepans Cressey, 1967 (Copepoda, Siphonostomatoida, Pandaridae) is redescribed based on the specimens taken from four species of sharks caught off the southeast coast of Taiwan. The four species of sharks are: pelagic thresher, Alopias pelagicus Nakamura; bigeye thresher, A. superciliosus Lowe; blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller et Henle); and oceanic whitetip shark, C. ...

Mercury accumulation in sharks from the coastal waters of southwest Florida.

As large long-lived predators, sharks are particularly vulnerable to exposure to methylmercury biomagnified through the marine food web. Accordingly, nonlethal means were used to collect tissues for determining mercury (Hg) concentrations and stable isotopes of carbon (δ(13)C) and nitrogen (δ(15)N) from a total of 69 sharks, comprising 7 species, caught off Southwest Florida from May 2010 throu...

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...

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...