Celebrated each year during Discovery Channel's Shark Week, Shedd Aquarium's Daniel P. Haerther Center for Conservation and Research seeks to continue to celebrate and protect elasmobranch fish through research that advances our understanding, informs policy and enhances livelihoods. (sheddaquarium.org)
The network supports the collection and organization of data as well as the development and dissemination of information concerning the state of shark and elasmobranch populations and their worldwide distribution. (scientificamerican.com)
This includes directing the quarantine and introduction of aquatic animals into a major new elasmobranch exhibit opening in the summer of 2018, the quarantine and introduction of aquatic animals into three expected major exhibit renovations, and to participate as time permits in multiple ongoing WCS marine conservation field programs. (iaaam.org)