Global catches, exploitation rates, and rebuilding options for sharks

By Boris Worm, Brendal Davis, Lisa Kettemer, C. Ward-Paige, D. Chapman, Michael R. Heithaus, S. Kessel, S. Gruber. 2013

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Post-release survival of juvenile silky sharks captured in a tropical tuna purse seine fishery (2015, background): “Similar to most commercial tuna fisheries, sharks that are captured incidentally are typically discarded at sea (Worm et al. 2013).”
Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction? (2019, background): “%) of species ≥ 100 kg of any of the classes examined here, and are more threatened, on average than any other marine group (Figure 1; Dulvy et al., 2014; Worm et al., 2013).”
The importance of considering genetic diversity in shark and ray conservation policies (2017, background): “Currently, massive population-level declines and extinction risks due to overfishing over recent decades present significant threats to sharks and rays in all oceans (Ferretti et al. 2010; Worm et al. 2013; Dulvy et al. 2014).”
Sharks, rays and abortion: The prevalence of capture-induced parturition in elasmobranchs (2018, background): “The direct effects of both targeted and incidental capture of chondrichthyans has been the focus of much directed research including numerous reviews (Stevens et al., 2000; Frisk et al., 2005; Worm et al., 2013; Dulvy et al., 2014; Oliver et al., 2015).”
Use of marine protected areas and exclusive economic zones in the subtropical western North Atlantic Ocean by large highly mobile sharks (2016, positive): “Populations of many highly mobile marine species, such as large predatory sharks, have declined world-wide in recent decades (Pauly et al. , 1998; Myers & Worm, 2003; Dulvy et al. , 2008; Worm et al. , 2013).”
Discards, hooking, and post-release mortality of porbeagle (Lamna nasus), shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus), and blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the Canadian pelagic longline fishery (2016, background): “Given that the current global annual estimate of 34 000 mt of unharvested global shark mortality is based on conservative approximations of capture and post-release mortality (Worm et al., 2013), it appears that actual mortality may be even larger.”