Alec BM Moore
@alecbmmoore.bsky.social
Lecturer in marine top predator conservation @sosbangor.bsky.social
I research: sharks & rays | marine historical ecology | fisheries | conservation 🏊🤿🎣🐟
I research: sharks & rays | marine historical ecology | fisheries | conservation 🏊🤿🎣🐟
Nice to see conservation policy outcomes from simple ideas
20+ yrs ago I had access to remote areas of Kuwait/Iraq, & saw its potential as bull shark 🦈 nursery habitat
Then spent 10+ years collecting evidence to back this up shorturl.at/0Cm0f
Now designated an Important Shark & Ray Area
20+ yrs ago I had access to remote areas of Kuwait/Iraq, & saw its potential as bull shark 🦈 nursery habitat
Then spent 10+ years collecting evidence to back this up shorturl.at/0Cm0f
Now designated an Important Shark & Ray Area
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Nice to see conservation policy outcomes from simple ideas
20+ yrs ago I had access to remote areas of Kuwait/Iraq, & saw its potential as bull shark 🦈 nursery habitat
Then spent 10+ years collecting evidence to back this up shorturl.at/0Cm0f
Now designated an Important Shark & Ray Area
20+ yrs ago I had access to remote areas of Kuwait/Iraq, & saw its potential as bull shark 🦈 nursery habitat
Then spent 10+ years collecting evidence to back this up shorturl.at/0Cm0f
Now designated an Important Shark & Ray Area
First sighting in 45 years of a basking shark off Mie, Japan, and occurrence records of the species in Japanese coastal waters
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
First sighting in 45 years of a basking shark off Mie, Japan, and occurrence records of the species in Japanese coastal waters
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Agree, but also see shotgun wadding which is exploding into the environment in quantity at this time of year
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Agree, but also see shotgun wadding which is exploding into the environment in quantity at this time of year
PhD on pied flycatchers
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
PhD on pied flycatchers
Guinean landing surveys of Bentfin devil rays add insight into threatened elasmobranch catch
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Guinean landing surveys of Bentfin devil rays add insight into threatened elasmobranch catch
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A seasonal aggregation of juvenile scalloped hammerheads Sphyrna lewini along beaches of the Gold Coast, Australia
October 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A seasonal aggregation of juvenile scalloped hammerheads Sphyrna lewini along beaches of the Gold Coast, Australia
Bite wounds on Tursiops aduncus provide the first inference of cookiecutter sharks (Isistius spp.) in the Red Sea
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Bite wounds on Tursiops aduncus provide the first inference of cookiecutter sharks (Isistius spp.) in the Red Sea
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New paper on potential impacts of deep sea mining on sharks, rays & chimaeras
October 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
New paper on potential impacts of deep sea mining on sharks, rays & chimaeras
Unexpected prey: lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) observed preying on an alien invasive freshwater fish in a remote no-take marine reserve in the Equatorial Atlantic
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Unexpected prey: lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) observed preying on an alien invasive freshwater fish in a remote no-take marine reserve in the Equatorial Atlantic
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It's always nice to re-visit, and cite, great books that you've had on your shelf for years
August 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's always nice to re-visit, and cite, great books that you've had on your shelf for years
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Rediscovery of one of the world's rarest sharks, the sailback houndshark Gogolia filewoodi, in Papua New Guinea
Rediscovery of one of the world's rarest sharks, the sailback houndshark Gogolia filewoodi, in Papua New Guinea
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Rediscovery of one of the world's rarest sharks, the sailback houndshark Gogolia filewoodi, in Papua New Guinea
Rediscovery of one of the world's rarest sharks, the sailback houndshark Gogolia filewoodi, in Papua New Guinea
Marine predator super-habitats: Channels used for foraging, resting, mating, and parturition in sharks
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
August 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Marine predator super-habitats: Channels used for foraging, resting, mating, and parturition in sharks
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Beautiful scientific illustration in a Government fisheries report, 1884
-Electric ray caught off Scotland
-Herring measurements
@projectfishistory.bsky.social
-Electric ray caught off Scotland
-Herring measurements
@projectfishistory.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Beautiful scientific illustration in a Government fisheries report, 1884
-Electric ray caught off Scotland
-Herring measurements
@projectfishistory.bsky.social
-Electric ray caught off Scotland
-Herring measurements
@projectfishistory.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A blacktip's black tip: The reliability of using dorsal-fin patterns for photo identification of blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)
A blacktip's black tip: The reliability of using dorsal-fin patterns for photo identification of blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)
August 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A blacktip's black tip: The reliability of using dorsal-fin patterns for photo identification of blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)
A blacktip's black tip: The reliability of using dorsal-fin patterns for photo identification of blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)
Nice representation of how various factors degrade the quality of biodiversity data over time in this 2017 paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
August 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Nice representation of how various factors degrade the quality of biodiversity data over time in this 2017 paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
FULLY FUNDED PhD opportunity on edible crab disease
with a great team here in a stunning location @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
with a great team here in a stunning location @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
July 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
FULLY FUNDED PhD opportunity on edible crab disease
with a great team here in a stunning location @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
with a great team here in a stunning location @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🦈Shark Awareness Day🦈
Some of the most valuable 'shark fins' are actually from rays (shark-like rays) which are Critically Endangered
And still being trade internationally despite regulation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Some of the most valuable 'shark fins' are actually from rays (shark-like rays) which are Critically Endangered
And still being trade internationally despite regulation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
🦈Shark Awareness Day🦈
Some of the most valuable 'shark fins' are actually from rays (shark-like rays) which are Critically Endangered
And still being trade internationally despite regulation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Some of the most valuable 'shark fins' are actually from rays (shark-like rays) which are Critically Endangered
And still being trade internationally despite regulation
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Impressive new atlas resource for students & researchers of marine turtles 🐢
July 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Impressive new atlas resource for students & researchers of marine turtles 🐢
July 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🦈 in the news, 1937
I've re-read this several times and still don't quite understand
I've re-read this several times and still don't quite understand
July 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🦈 in the news, 1937
I've re-read this several times and still don't quite understand
I've re-read this several times and still don't quite understand
A quarter of a century ago, my first publication came out
Mystified why it has only been cited 6 times (once by me)..🤣
Mystified why it has only been cited 6 times (once by me)..🤣
July 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A quarter of a century ago, my first publication came out
Mystified why it has only been cited 6 times (once by me)..🤣
Mystified why it has only been cited 6 times (once by me)..🤣
Interesting paper on non-lethal stomach sampling of sharks & rays
July 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Interesting paper on non-lethal stomach sampling of sharks & rays
July 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM