Elasmobranch populations are declining worldwide, calling for urgent assessment of fishery
exploitation and application of effective conservation strategies. Here, we applied a novel …

Elasmobranchs are among the most threatened long-lived marine species worldwide, and
incidental capture is a major source of mortality. The northern central Adriatic Sea, though …

The nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum (Bonnaterre, 1778) is one of the most studied
species of elasmobranchs. However, the knowledge of their reproductive biology is still …

Pivotal life history traits concerning age structure and reproduction of the spiny dogfish
(Squalus acanthias, Linnaeus 1758) were investigated in the Adriatic Sea from mid February …

The ecological roles and trophic interactions of two commercially important mesopredatory
shark species, Squalus acanthias and Mustelus punctulatus that co‐occur on the continental …

This research provides the first information on age and growth estimates for the endangered
Mediterranean subpopulation of spiny dogfish, a commercially exploited shark, highly …

We investigated the fecundity and embryonic development of Spiny Dogfish Squalus
acanthias (68.8–88.4 cm TL; n= 49) caught in the northwest Atlantic Ocean off Long Island …

Spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias is a widely distributed, highly migratory mesopredatory
shark that is extremely sensitive to overexploitation. Because of unregulated targeted and …

We investigated and compared the structure of parasite communities in two sympatric,
commercially exploited sharks. We analysed 188 gastrointestinal tracts from a crustacean …

Globally, shark populations can be susceptible to overexploitation from fishing due to their
conservative life histories (eg, late maturity, slow growth, long gestation periods, and low …