David Shiffman

Thursday Afternoon Dredging: September 14th, 2017

September 14, 2017September 13, 2017 David Shiffman

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Watch this bat ray at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Follow Marie Auger-Méthé, an Arctic ecologist, on twitter!
How sea creatures change color. From Nature Research Highlights.
Global fingerprints of sea level rise revealed by satellites. By Rachael Lallensack for Nature News.

Irma’s Caribbean devastation, aquaculture, and Okeanos education: Thursday Afternoon Dredging: September 7th, 2017

September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 David Shiffman

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Watch how goblin sharks feed
Follow the Sawfish Conservation Society on twitter!
Sturgeon survives kidnapping, stabbing, and wildfire. By Amelia Templeton, for Oregon Public Broadcasting
UK coast haven for seabirds becomes a marine protected area. From The Guardian.

Oil spill impacts, Great Barrier Reef recovery, and the mystery of the Hunley: Thursday Afternoon Dredging: August 31, 2017

August 31, 2017 David Shiffman

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Watch these bull sharks in Beqa Lagoon, Fiji, in this video by Beqa Lagoon Resort.
Bull sharks in Fiji
Follow marine social scientist Amy Diedrich on twitter!
The impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Gulf of Mexico shorelines. An introduction to a special issue of research, from the NOAA Response and Restoration blog.

Shrinking fish, shipstrikes, and tracking Putin by wildlife. Thursday Afternoon Dredging: August 24th, 2017

August 24, 2017August 24, 2017 David Shiffman

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Watch this basking shark feed in a video from Basking Shark Scotland
Video by Basking Shark Scotland
Follow Ting-Chun Kuo, a seahorse conservationist who just defended her Ph.D., on twitter!
Climate change is shrinking fish. By Craig Welch, for National Geographic.
More whales are dying from shipstrikes then previously believed, because some sink. By KCBS news.
Scientists attached cameras to penguins. Here’s what they found. By Sarah Gibbens, for National Geographic

Listening for fish, glass sponges, and braking for whales: Thursday Afternoon Dredging: August 17, 2017

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 David Shiffman

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Watch this tiger shark take on an albatross on some of my favorite National Geographic natural history footage
Follow Dr. Maria Jose Juan-Jorda, a postdoctoral researcher studying sustainable shark and tuna fisheries, on twitter!
To see a coelocanth. By Steve Midway, for the Fisheries Blog.
Scientific expedition set to explore British Columbia’s glass sponge reefs. By Larry Pynn, for the Vancouver Sun.

Background information on our land-based shark fishing paper

August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 David Shiffman 5 Comments

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A photo used in this study showing a hammerhead shark taken completely out of the water. As with all photos used in this study, the angler’s privacy has been protecting by blurring out his face.

I have a new paper out on the conservation impacts of recreational shark fishing. The paper is called “fishing practices and representations of shark conservation issues among users of a land-based shark angling online forum,” and it is published in the journal Fisheries Research. If you don’t have institutional library access, you can read a copy of the paper here. The goal of this blog post is to provide background information on the study.

Journalists are free to quote or paraphrase information from this blog post. Additionally, I provide some suggested quotes below, and I am available for interviews about this paper (please contact me at WhySharksMatter at gmail).

Flesh eating sea lice, illegal eel fishing, and whale graveyards: Thursday Afternoon Dredging: August 10th, 2017

August 10, 2017August 12, 2017 David Shiffman

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Watch this sixgill shark swim in the coastal waters near Vancouver, in this clip from the Vancouver Aquarium!
Video courtesy Vancouver Aquarium
Follow Al Harry, Australian shark researcher, on twitter! Al has just joined, so welcome him!
Sea lice feast of fresh meat as teenager left bloodied. Video from the Guardian. My official comment on this story can be found here. Also, here’s a video of some similar creatures skeletonizing a whole pig in a few days. (It is worth noting that some scientists are skeptical of this explanation of what happened to this Australian teenager.)
Learn about whalefalls, an important underwater habitat made up of dead whales. Video and story by Julie Takahashi, for the Houston Chronicle
How do you tag a jellyfish? By Diane Richards, for the Monterrey Bay Aquarium’s Conservation and Science Blog.
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