This week, on the #WoS podcast, Yolarnie Amepou discusses her deep cultural ties in PNG, where she is working to provide information to support fisheries management of the Endangered winghead shark in the Kikori Delta.

Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark...

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Recently had the pleasure of catching up with Dave Ebert and Andrew Lewin on the Beyond Jaws Podcast to talk about my journey into researching River Sharks, Freshwater, PNG, and Borneo www.youtube.com/watch?v=co33...

Silky Sharks are the 2nd most caught shark globally, thought to be a wide ranging species. Each Tuna RFMO manages its Silky Shark bycatch as a single stock within its jurisdiction. Here, we find multiple stocks in all RFMOs which we had more than one sample site for. peerj.com/articles/194...

Science is full of what sound like contradictions. Great example this week with tow papers on the structure of Australian the white shark. Population:
One supports two populations: www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24132
The other supports one population:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

And here is the second one. Status change by the three main ocean habitats of sharks, rays and chimaeras through time.
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New Paper Alert 📣
(Part 2 of 2)

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction.

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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The academic year officially underway at National University of Vanuatu! JCU is supporting the environmental program, aiming to raise in country capacity through local graduates from NUV.

Our new paper profiles the threat of targeted fish maw fisheries to sharks, rays, and cetaceans. 1. maw is facilitating landing and trade of CITES listed species. 2. Global trade data bases need to recognize fish maw as a product driving fishery effort conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Following the incidental introduction of tilapia, fishers and market vendors in PNG's Kikori River generally see tilapia as an easily caught and sellable fish with high palatability compared to native species. Time will tell if these perceptions are up held link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thanks to Synchronicity Earth & Save Our Seas Foundation, our sawfish conservation efforts in PNG are ramping up. Along with our children's book sawfishbook.org, we're handing out shirts and hats. Aiming to create awareness and start a dialogue with fishers... their actions could prevent extinction