Mark Corcoran, Mahmood Shivji, Demian Chapman & Guy Harvey – Guy Harvey Research Institute, Nova Southeastern University Brad Wetherbee – Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island The Cayman Islands are home to two of the world’s best known dive and snorkel sites, Stingray City and the Sandbar, where large numbers of southern stingrays […]
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Predator-prey interactions between mako sharks (Isurus oxyrinchus) and bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)
Tony Wood – Graduate School of Oceanography , University of Rhode Island Brad Wetherbee & Cheryl Wilga – Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island Nancy Kohler – NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC and Francis Juanes – Fishery & Wildlife Management, UMass Amherst Bluefish stocks along the east coast of North America have been declining for the last decade. One […]
Continue reading "Predator-prey interactions between mako sharks (Isurus oxyrinchus) and bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)"Habitat preferences and migratory patterns of the blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the Northern Atlantic Ocean
Lucy Howey & Mahmood Shivji – Guy Harvey Research Institute, Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University Brad Wetherbee – Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island The blue shark (Prionace glauca) is a highly migratory, pelagic, circumglobally distributed species whose fins constitute by far the largest proportion of fins traded in the in the world […]
Continue reading "Habitat preferences and migratory patterns of the blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the Northern Atlantic Ocean"Activity patterns of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) at French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Brad Wetherbee – Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island Chris Lowe – Department of Biological Sciences, Cal State University Long Beach Carl Meyer – Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii Shark predation on the endangered Hawaiian monk seal (Monachusschauinslandi) is thought to have had a large impact on the seal population […]
Continue reading "Activity patterns of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) at French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands"Movement patterns and behavior of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) along a populated coastline of southern Oahu, Hawaii
Kim Holland – Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii Brad Wetherbee – Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island Chris Lowe – California State University at Long Beach Carl Meyer – Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii Externally and internally implanted sonic transmitters were used to track the movements of […]
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