Challenges and priorities in shark and ray conservation

NK Dulvy, CA Simpfendorfer, LNK Davidson… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Sharks, rays, and chimaeras (Class Chondrichthyes; herein 'sharks') are the earliest extant
jawed vertebrates and exhibit some of the greatest functional diversity of all vertebrates …

Fish conservation in freshwater and marine realms: status, threats and management

AH Arthington, NK Dulvy, W Gladstone… - Aquatic Conservation …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the disparities in size and volume of marine and freshwater realms, a strikingly
similar number of species is found in each–with 15 150 Actinopterygian fishes in fresh water …

Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

NK Dulvy, N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, RA Pollom… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The scale and drivers of marine biodiversity loss are being revealed by the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment process. We present the first …

Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays

N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, PM Kyne, RB Sherley… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Overfishing is the primary cause of marine defaunation, yet declines in and increasing
extinction risks of individual species are difficult to measure, particularly for the largest …

Research priorities to support effective manta and devil ray conservation

JD Stewart, FRA Jaine, AJ Armstrong… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Manta and devil rays are filter-feeding elasmobranchs that are found circumglobally in
tropical and subtropical waters. Although relatively understudied for most of the Twentieth …

From sea monsters to charismatic megafauna: changes in perception and use of large marine animals

C Mazzoldi, G Bearzi, C Brito, I Carvalho, E Desiderà… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Marine megafauna has always elicited contrasting feelings. In the past, large marine
animals were often depicted as fantastic mythological creatures and dangerous monsters …

Characterization of the trade in manta and devil ray gill plates in China and South‐east Asia through trader surveys

M O'Malley, KA Townsend, P Hilton… - Aquatic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dried gill plates from manta and devil rays, some of the world's most biologically vulnerable
fishes, have become a valued commodity in Asian dried‐seafood and traditional Chinese …

Message framing strategies for effective marine conservation communication

K Kolandai‐Matchett… - … Conservation: Marine and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities are a major source of threat to marine ecosystems. Solutions thus require
changes to or cessation of those activities in addition to multiple restorative and …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management

CY Kot, SE DeLand, AL Harrison, A Alberini… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the areas used by migratory marine animals and their movements is critical
in supporting management decisions that target their conservation. This is especially …

Conservation and population ecology of manta rays in the Maldives

GMW Stevens - 2016 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
This multi-decade study on an isolated and unfished population of manta rays (Manta alfredi
and M. birostris) in the Maldives used individual-based photo-ID records and behavioural …