This study examines life history patterns and correlations between traits related to body size,
reproduction, age, and growth in sharks, using data from 230 populations representing 164 …

Sharks and other chondrichthyans are often described as long lived, slow growing and
producing few offspring. These biological characteristics, together with the common …

With numerous real-world examples, Modelling and Quantitative Methods in Fisheries,
Second Edition provides an introduction to the analytical methods used by fisheries' …

Management of fisheries around the world is challenged by fishing impacts on habitats,
bycatch species, threatened and endangered species, and even associated ecological …

The concept of elasmobranch species using nursery areas was introduced in the early
1900s and has been an accepted aspect of shark biology and behavior for several decades …

Sharks and their relatives, the rays and chimaeras, are the diverse group of cartilaginous
fishes that have evolved over 400 million years. Historically considered of low economic …

We compared life-history traits and extinction risk of chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and
chimaeras), a group of high conservation concern, from the three major marine habitats …

The tagging of sharks using conventional tags has long been recognized as a valuable
means for studying various aspects of their life history, migrations and movements, and …

Population demography is based on simple models for constructing life tables from
reproductive and mortality parameters or on age-based models using Leslie matrices. Stock …

Numerous studies have now demonstrated that the most common method of ageing sharks
and rays, counting growth zones on calcified structures, can underestimate true age. I …