The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has taken a step to further protect the threatened oceanic whitetip shark. At its September meeting, the FWC approved classifying this ...
Oceanic whitetip sharks are the boldest ... A sure sign of a free meal, the shark can steal the fish right off the line! But populations of oceanic whitetips are crashing worldwide.
oceanic whitetip sharks have been involved in three fatal attacks on humans, but many more may have came during the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in World War II, where survivors faced shark ...
No shark fishery can sustain a 25 percent removal ... Glenn Hodges wrote about oceanic whitetip sharks in the August 2016 issue. Photographer Brian Skerry has been named the Rolex National ...
Oceanic Whitetip Shark with a Pop-Up Satellite Archival Tag and 2 Uniquely Numbered External Tags At Preparing An Oceanic Whitetip Shark for Release after Being Fitted with a Pop-Up Satellite ...
The species in question include oceanic whitetip, porbeagle and three types of hammerhead shark, as well as two manta ray species. Shark populations are decreasing at a rapid rate across the ...
Appendix II trade protections have previously been achieved for a number of shark and ray species, including basking and whale sharks in 2003; great white sharks in 2005; oceanic whitetip, ...
Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an "alarming" rate. The number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to ...
The RJD team will conduct a comprehensive study on the movement patterns of oceanic whitetip sharks in the ... (“SPOT”) satellite tags to track shark behavior in near real-time for up to ...