You can swim but you can't hide: The global status and conservation of oceanic pelagic sharks and rays

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 459-482

  Dulvy, Nicholas K ^a,b   Baum, Julia K ^c   Clarke, Shelley ^d   Compagno, Leonard J V ^e   Cortés, Enric ^f   Domingo, Andrés ^g   Fordham, Sonja ^h   Fowler, Sarah ⁱ   Francis, Malcolm P ^j   Gibson, Claudine ⁱ   Martínez, Jimmy ^k   Musick, John A ^l   Soldo, Alen ^m   Stevens, John D ⁿ   Valenti, Sarah ⁱ  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Division of Biology   (United Kingdom)

^e IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Direccion Nacional de Recursos Acuaticos   (Uruguay)

^h Ocean Conservancy and Shark Alliance   (Belgium)

ⁱ Naturebureau International   (United Kingdom)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^k Escuela de Pesca del Pacifico Oriental (EPESPO)   (Ecuador)

^l VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^m Department of Marine Studies   (Croatia)

ⁿ CSIRO   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Billfish; Biodiversity conservation; Blue shark; Demography; Elasmobranch; Life histories; Porbeagle; Thresher shark; Tuna; White shark

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPLOITATION; EXTINCTION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; RED LIST; RESILIENCE; SHARK; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ALOPIINAE (ELASMOBRANCH); CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS; CHONDRICHTHYES; ISURUS; LAMNA DITROPIS; LAMNIDAE; PRIONACE GLAUCA; PTEROPLATYTRYGON VIOLACEA; SCOMBRIDAE; XIPHIIDAE;

EID: 50149086306     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.975     Document Type: Article

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