Apex Predator Publications and Reports – Shortfin Mako Shark

Ardizzone, D, GM Cailliet^., LJ Natanson^., AH Andrews^., LA Kerr^. and TA Brown. 2006. Application of bomb radiocarbon chronologies to shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) age validation. Environmental Biology of Fishes 77:355-366.

Caira, JN, GW Benz, J Borucinska, and NE Kohler. 1997. Pugnose eels, Simenchelys parasiticus (Synaphobranchidae) from the heart of a shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus (Lamnidae), Environmental Biology of Fishes 49:139-144.

Campana, S, LJ Natanson, and S Myklevoll. 2002. Bomb dating and age determination of large pelagic sharks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59(3):450-455.

Casey, JG and JM Hoenig. 1977. Apex predators in deepwater dumpsite 106. Pages 309-376 in: NOAA Dumpsite Evaluation Report 77-1, Baseline Report of environmental conditions in Deepwater Dumpsite 106. Washington, DC.

Casey, JG and NE Kohler. 1992. Tagging studies on the shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the western North Atlantic. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43:45-50.

Hoey, JJ, A Aires-da-Silva, PA Turner, T Syc, and NE Kohler. 2005. A review of exploratory longline surveys and biological sampling of sharks from the Sandy Hook, NJ and Narragansett, RI labs: 1961-1991. SEDAR11-DW23. SEDAR, North Charleston, SC. 17 pp.

Kohler, NE, JG Casey, and PA Turner. 1996. An analysis of length-length and length-weight relationships for 13 species of sharks from the western North Atlantic. NOAA Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NE-110. 22 pp. 

Kohler, NE, JG Casey and PA Turner. 1995. Length-weight relationships for 13 species of sharks from the western North Atlantic. Fishery Bulletin 93:412-418.

Kohler, NE, JG Casey, and PA Turner. 1998. NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program, 1962-93: An atlas of shark tag and recapture data. Marine Fisheries Review 60(2), 87 pp.

Kohler, NE and PA Turner. 2019. Distributions and movements of Atlantic shark species: A 52-year retrospective atlas of mark and recapture data. Marine Fisheries Review 81(2), 93 pp.

Kohler, NE, PA Turner, JJ Hoey, LJ Natanson, and R Briggs. 2002. Tag and recapture data for three pelagic shark species: blue shark (Prionace glauca), shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus), and porbeagle (Lamna nasus) in the North Atlantic Ocean. ICCAT Collective Volume of Scientific Papers 54(4):1231-1260.

Mollet, HF, G Cliff, HL Pratt, Jr., and JD Stevens. 2000. Reproductive biology of the female shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque,1810, with comments on the embryonic development of lamnoids Fishery Bulletin 98:299-318. 

Natanson, LJ. 2005. Catch rate information obtained from the NMFS Northeast Longline Survey. SEDAR11-DW33. SEDAR, North Charleston, SC. 9 pp.

Natanson, LJ. 2002. Preliminary investigations into the age and growth of the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, white shark,  Carcharodon carcharias, and thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, in the western North Atlantic Ocean. ICCAT Collective Volume of Scientific Papers 54(4):1280-1293.

Natanson, LJ, NE Kohler, D Ardizzone, GM Cailliet, S Wintner and HF Mollet. 2006. Validated age and growth estimates for the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, in the North Atlantic Ocean. Environmental Biology of Fishes 77:367-383.

Natanson, LJ, M Winton,H Bowlby, W Joyce, B Decay, R Coehlo and D Rosa. 2020. Updated reproductive parameters for the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus), in the North Atlantic Ocean with inferences of distribution by sex and reproductive stage. Fishery Bulletin 118(1):21-36.

Pratt, Jr., HL and JG Casey. 1983. Age and growth of the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, using four methods. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 40(11):1944-1957.

Schulze-Haugen, M, T Corey, and NE Kohler. 2003. Guide to sharks, tunas, and billfishes of the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. RI Sea Grant/NMFS, 118 pp.

Stillwell, CE and NE Kohler. 1982. Food, feeding habits, and estimates of daily ration of the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the northwest Atlantic. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 39:407-414.

Wood, AD, JS Collie, and NE Kohler. 2007. Estimating survival of the shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus (Rafinesque) in the north-west Atlantic from tag-recapture data. Journal of Fish Biology 71:1679-1695.