Sentences with phrase «shark population in»

With the shark population in serious peril, and other countries and states passing legislation to protect sharks, New York should be a leader in extending protection to these magnificent animals.»

To get a better picture of the white shark population in the Eastern North Pacific, the team decided to examine several other known aggregation sites, from Mexico into British Columbia and Alaska.

«Great white shark population in good health along California coast.»

Ben G. Saroy, Head of Cendrawasih Bay National Park Authority, agreed, «Cendrawasih Bay, home to the biggest whale shark population in Indonesia, requires comprehensive information to manage this endangered species.

From the beach, on a clear day there are unparalleled views of the Farallon Islands, home to one of the largest great white shark populations in North America.

Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Not exact matches

Trump wants to eradicate the threat of terrorism as eagerly as he once said he wanted to eradicate the threat of sharks — even though, in a population of more than 320 million, neither generally results in a particularly large number of deaths in the United States.

The researchers also made another unexpected discovery, uncovering a significant population of the rare leaf scaled sea snake in the lush seagrass beds of Shark Bay.

Although the authors don't know for sure whether shark numbers have gone up, they speculate that the population could have been boosted by fishing discards before all fishing in the area was banned in 2006.

Dr Sara Andreotti, a marine biologist in the Department of Botany and Zoology at SU, have collected over 5000 photographic images of the dorsal fins of white sharks along the South African coastline as part of her research on the population structure of South Africa's great white sharks.

«Certainly anytime we have a situation like that where there's such overwhelming media attention, it's going to leave a memory in the population,» says George Burgess, curator of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who fielded 30 to 40 media calls a day that summer.

«In addition to the unpredictability of a shark attack over such a large area, it is possible that fishing of tiger sharks has reduced their populations to levels that no longer pose a significant threat to turtles, with other factors becoming more important such as the need to avoid boat strikes»

Bear says that sevengill sharks did not start appearing in the San Diego area until 2008, but that the population has since grown steadily.

So far, the information has been cited in more than 50 scientific publications; it has helped researchers analyze shark population declines and identify two new species of colorful fish — the Florida barred hamlet (Hypoplectrus floridae) and the contoy hamlet (H. ecosur).

Once they had a sense of how many sharks were in the densest communities and combined that with previous data on the sharks» movements, they modeled an estimate for the population as a whole.

* Correction, 22 November, 12:19 p.m.: The story has been changed to reflect that the population estimate of whale sharks corresponded to individuals in one genetically similar group.

Using only the DNA from sloughed - off cells floating in the ocean, scientists have been able to determine the population size and genetic properties of one of the world's largest and most mysterious animals: the whale shark.

Hammerhead sharks, which have recently received new protections from the UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, are experiencing drastic population declines in excess of 90 % in several parts of world.

«Anyone who has spent time on the ocean over the last 20 or 30 years will tell you that they used to see lots of sharks and that they don't anymore,» says Boris Worm, a marine conservation biologist and leading expert in shark populations at Dalhousie University in Canada.

In the 1970s and 1980s, relative abundance data indicated that white shark populations declined, likely due to expanding commercial and recreational shark fisheries.

In many populations, 75 - 100 per cent of sharks are parasitized.

This study also increased the number of genetic markers scientist can use to study the population biology of great white and related sharks, Stanhope said, by a thousandfold, from which they hope to further expand knowledge of these fascinating animals, many of which are in urgent need of conservation.

In fact, the increase in the number of juvenile sharks is a positive sign of a recovering shark populatioIn fact, the increase in the number of juvenile sharks is a positive sign of a recovering shark populatioin the number of juvenile sharks is a positive sign of a recovering shark population.

Scallop and clam fisheries have also collapsed, in part because the overfishing of sharks has set off a population explosion of rays, which eat mollusks.

«We see this as being an important part of new technology coming online to better track the health of shark populations, better understand their behavior and help do a better job with their conservation,» said co-author Paul DeSalles, a researcher in McCauley's lab.

Burgess and his colleagues assembled a 10 - member team with expertise in all facets of shark biology: demography, population dynamics, life history, tagging and movements, fishery biology and conservation, and mathematical modeling.

Another possibility is that the recovery of seal and sea lion populations off the coast of California, thanks again to successful marine protection policies, are giving the sharks more reason to stay in these waters.

In fact, the diversity of Architeuthis is lower than that for any other marine animal, except one — the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus, whose current population is thought to have rebounded from a small number of individuals.

The study highlights the need for more research on whale sharks as well as a multinational, cooperative effort to conserve populations in both the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.

In the largest study on the genetics of whale sharks conducted to date, researchers found that the world's biggest fish likely exist in 2 distinct populations with minimal connectivity between the Indo - Pacific and the Atlantic OceaIn the largest study on the genetics of whale sharks conducted to date, researchers found that the world's biggest fish likely exist in 2 distinct populations with minimal connectivity between the Indo - Pacific and the Atlantic Oceain 2 distinct populations with minimal connectivity between the Indo - Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean.

The East African humpback whale population is growing, so we might see more shark attacks in future, Dicken's paper suggests.

Using the largest data set in the Northwest Atlantic, we show rapid large declines in large coastal and oceanic shark populations.

The researchers went to Palmyra, a remote atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, where shark populations are healthy, fishing is not allowed and the majority of its near pristine underwater world is rarely dived.

Even in California, where monitoring is relatively good, estimates of the white shark population vary by an order of magnitude, from 500 to 5,000.

In the future, genetic analyses can greatly increase researchers» still very limited understanding of whale shark ecology and the status of what appears for now to be at least 2 populations.

A team of scientists from Canada and Australia has discovered that a decline in shark populations is detrimental to coral reefs.

A new scientific study has identified two distinct populations of white shark at the east and west of Bass Strait in Australian waters, prompting researchers to suggest the huge fi...

An international team of researchers studying globally declining shark populations report today that they used carbon isotopes as biochemical markers in shark muscle tissue...

Earlier in 2014, myself and several members of our lab attended a conference in South Africa and then spent up to 4 weeks in the field conducting experiments with the populations of great white sharks off the coast.

Her only companions are the scientists studying there, odd and quirky refugees from the mainland living in rustic conditions; they document the fish populations around the island, the bold trio of sharks called the Sisters that hunt the surrounding waters, and the overwhelming bird population who, at times, create the need to wear hard hats as protection from their attacks.

In this video I head underwater to check out the local population of manta rays, whale sharks, and coral life; meet up with some new friends -LSB-...]

While there I head underwater to check out the local population of manta rays, whale sharks, and coral life; meet up with some new friends who make their living selling art in town; and recuperate from a bout of malaria I unfortunately caught while there.

In this video I head underwater to check out the local population of manta rays, whale sharks, and coral life; meet up with some new friends who make their living selling art in town; and recuperate from a bout of malaria I unfortunately caught while therIn this video I head underwater to check out the local population of manta rays, whale sharks, and coral life; meet up with some new friends who make their living selling art in town; and recuperate from a bout of malaria I unfortunately caught while therin town; and recuperate from a bout of malaria I unfortunately caught while there.

Assist the Research Team of the Gili Shark & Marine Conservation Project, who work on a variety of marine citizen science research projects with the aim of improving shark populations and awareness in the Gili Islands and IndonShark & Marine Conservation Project, who work on a variety of marine citizen science research projects with the aim of improving shark populations and awareness in the Gili Islands and Indonshark populations and awareness in the Gili Islands and Indonesia.

In partnership with the Shark Research group at Mote Marine Laboratory, Georgia Aquarium staff will study the population size, make - up and movements near Sarasota, to build vital knowledge about these poorly understood but beautiful creatures.

She has monitored pinniped (seal and sea lion) populations at Point Reyes and elsewhere in central California, and has never personally seen an attack so close, though others who study and tag sharks have.

The future focus for field research will be to explore connections to populations of whale sharks found in more remote places on Earth.

Gansbaai is a small fishing village in the Western Cape, famous for its huge population of Great White Sharks.

These efforts, despite damaging the shark population, were shown to be ineffective in decreasing the number of interactions between humans and tiger sharks.

A registered non-profit organisation, Sharklife addresses the alarming exploitation of both shark populations and ocean fisheries in South African waters.