Sep 15, 2016 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
APECS (Association for the study and conservation of selachians) is a Brittany-based organization with a scientific and educational mission. It acts in favor of the conservation of sharks, rays and marine ecosystems using participatory science...
Sep 9, 2016 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Researchers from James Cook University fitted more than 10 tiger sharks and 10 green sea turtles with satellite tags at Raine Island over a five year period to better understand tiger shark movements. Know as the largest breeding in the world Raine Island hosts a...
Mar 2, 2016 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The first whale shark was tagged in the Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti, 2006. Two more followed in 2011. The Argos system allowed the association to track one of the whale shark until island of Socotra. While the other went up the Red Sea to face the coast of Yemen, where...
Dec 8, 2015 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Climate change will impact fishes in complex ways, from high-energy-demand species such as yellowfin tuna, to more sedentary animals such as tilapia. While the ability to predict these impacts is essential to adapting to climate-change, our current understanding of...
Sep 8, 2015 | Fish, Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Basking sharks are prevalent in the North Atlantic waters, off the coast of Scotland. While it is rarer to spot a basking shark in the Irish Sea, sightings have been reported off the Isle of Man. This is why a new partnership between Sea Life...
Jul 6, 2015 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Tiger sharks, an IUCN ‘near-threatened’ species, are widely believed to be a coastal species. But in an article published in Scientific Reports on June 9th, 2015, scientists James Lea and Brad Wetherbee, Ph.D., of Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research...
