Overfishing is the primary cause of marine defaunation, yet declines in and increasing
extinction risks of individual species are difficult to measure, particularly for the largest …

The oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) was once considered one of the
most abundant and ubiquitous pelagic shark species in tropical seas globally. However …

Climate change influences marine environmental conditions and is projected to increase
future environmental variability. In the North Atlantic, such changes will affect the behavior …

Approximately 25% of globally reported shark catches occur in Atlantic pelagic longline
fisheries. Strong declines in shark populations have been detected in the North Atlantic …

Recently, declining populations of several pelagic shark species have led to global
conservation concerns surrounding this group. As a result, a series of species-specific …

A combination of fisheries dependent and independent data was used to assess the
vulnerability of the oceanic whitetip shark to pelagic longline fisheries. The Brazilian tuna …

Oceanic whitetip sharks (Carcharhinus longimanus) in the Western Central Pacific have
been overfished and require improved assessment and management to enable planning of …

Large pelagic sharks are distributed throughout all of the oceans and are caught as bycatch
in pelagic longline fisheries worldwide. In the southern Atlantic Ocean, more than a dozen …

Time series of depth data, obtained for 6 oceanic whitetip sharks (Carcharhinus longimanus)
tagged with pop-up satellite archival tags, were analyzed in detail. The aim was to improve …

Catch and effort data from 29 418 longline sets from Brazilian tuna longline vessels
operating in the south‐western and equatorial Atlantic Ocean between 2004 and 2011 were …