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The primary method of age estimation in fishes relies on counting growth increments in mineralized tissues, including otoliths, vertebrae, and fin rays.
Read moreThe Government has decided to ban the practice and tightened the timetable for eradicating shark finning in New Zealand waters. The first tranche of species will be covered by the ban in October 2014, with a second tranche a year later.
Read moreIt is the phrase that Scuba Junkie Mabul Resort on the east coast of Borneo has been using over the last seven years when talking passionately about the area in which they take people diving on a daily basis, and about the sharks that they have be
Read moreThe reefs of the park host an exceptionally healthy marine ecosystem. When visiting the dive sites you will witness lush coral forest with abundant fish populations.
Read moreThe NSW Department of Primary Industries report into the Shark Meshing (Bather Protection) Program shows less than one shark is spotted for every 100km.
Read more"We found that newborn sharks captured in the mid-1990s left the safety of the islands when they were between five and eight years old." explained Dr. Kevin Feldheim, the A.
Read moreThe World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Philippines has reported a marked rise in interactions with the giant fish in Donsol in the final quarter of 2013, resulting in increasing tourist numbers.
Read moreIn order to show people the true nature of sharks on his dives, Jim specifically targeted those with the worst reputations. He was the first eco-tourism guide operator to do so.
Read morePlans to create an artificial marine enclosure stocked with wild-caught whale sharks off the Kenya coast have been rejected by the government.
Read moreA difficulty in obtaining information about the natural behaviour of wild animals is that detailed observations of the activities of different individuals is necessary over long periods of time.
Read moreSharks have a very different set of senses than we do, yet the eyesight of the free swimming species is good, so when they look at you, they are seeing you.
Read moreNamena Reserve, a 60 square kilometers (23-square-mile) reserve was designated in 1997 off the southern coast of Vanua Levu, Fiji's second largest island.
Read moreDr Simon Oliver, founder of the Thresher Shark Research and Conservation Project and a researcher based at University of Liverpool, filmed pelagic thresher sharks as they hunted off Pescador Island in the Philippines.
Read moreNOAA had been investigating the great white population since last year, when the environmental groups Oceana, Shark Stewards and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition calling for endangered species protection.
Read moreAir New Zealand had recently temporarily suspended carrying the product pending a review, after the New Zealand Shark Alliance had exposed the practice in local media.
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