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Tag: sharks

  • January Jones is scared for sharks

    [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/4891090[/vimeo]

  • Shark week on SeaMonster

    Tomorrow is day 1 of the Discovery Channel’s famed “Shark Week” – a 7 day orgy of sharks behaving badly, ie, eating stuff. I know zillions of people love it and I know there is some education value there. In fact, this years Shark Week web site has quite a lot of good educational content…

  • Following up on the Galapagos Shark massacre

    Deep Sea News has been publishing so many must read stories I can’t keep up!  For example, See Rick M’s great follow up on the Galapagos shark saga; The truly unfortunate fact is that this news is neither new nor uncommon. And it is global Designation of any parcel of ocean “as protected”, formally or informally, is no guarantee…

  • Anatomy of a shark heist

    Below is a guest post by Lindsey Carr, a PhD student in my lab at UNC. Lindsey is doing her dissertation research on the dynamics of shallow subtidal communities across the Galapagos archipelago. Her post is excerpted from a report she wrote for the Galapagos National Park about the catch found on the illegal vessel.…

  • What a marine massacre looks like

    Yesterday I led a team of eight scientists and students from UNC, USFQ and the Galapagos Science Center that documented the catch aboard a vessel caught illegally long lining in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. We worked alongside a great team from the Galapagos National Park and were also assisted by the Ecuadorian Coast Guard.  We identified, sexed, and measured every individual (there…

  • Photos from a rarely seen paradise

    In the wake of John Bruno’s report from the Galapagos, I bring you happier news from the Equatorial Pacific, nearly five thousand miles farther west: there are still wildernesses on Earth. I was lucky enough to spend May and June in the engine room of a sailboat heading south from Honolulu, as crew with the…

  • Breaking news: 357 dead sharks found on illegal fishing vessel in Galapagos National Park

    Check back on SeaMonster or go here for updates and related posts I’m in the conference room of the Galapagos Science Center overlooking the harbor of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on the island of San Cristobal in the Galapagos. There is a lot of commotion around a new addition to the habors fishing fleet: a rundown small ship from…

  • Breaking news: Shark fishing banned in the Bahamas!

    The BBC is reporting that shark fishing has been banned in the Bahamas!  About time. My lab is working on the role of sharks and other top predators in coral reef food webs and one of the few places in the Caribbean that we can go to work with sharks is the Bahamas. This ban went…

  • Shark tagging – the low down

      I wrote already about some of the latest technologies that are letting scientists get useful data out of a shark without killing it (including shark ultra-sound and DNA fingerprinting their partially digested puke), and of course there’s a whole lot we can find out by sneaking up on a shark and sticking a tag…

  • Things you can learn from a live shark

                            Following on from my post on the global phenomenon that is shark-spotting, I found a couple more papers about why it’s good to keep sharks alive… and not just for tourists but for scientists too. University of Miami researchers have been looking into…