"Sharks"

The Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) report summarizes the best available scientific information concerning the past, present, and possible future condition of the stocks, marine ecosystems, and fisheries that are managed under Federal regulation. It provides information to the Councils for determining annual harvest levels from each stock, documenting significant trends or changes in the resource, marine ecosystems, and fishery over time, and assessing the relative success of existing state and Federal fishery management programs. For the FMP for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Area, the SAFE report is published in three sections: a “Stock Assessment” section, which comprises the bulk of this document, and “Economic Status of Groundfish Fisheries off Alaska” (i.e., the “Economic SAFE report”) and “Ecosystem Considerations” sections, which are bound separately.

An observer brought in an unusual, unidentified shark that was caught on a longline. Find out what scientists learned from it.

Conservation actions for chambered nautiluses, devil rays and sharks were agreed today among member nations or parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This report was produced in response to a petition received from Defenders of Wildlife on April 27, 2015, to list the smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zygaena) as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On August 11, 2015, the Nat

This report summarizes the best available data and information on three species of angelsharks (Squatina aculeata, S. oculata, and S. squatina) and presents an evaluation of their status and extinction risk.

Alyssa N. (Alyssa Napier), Mathers, Bethany M. Deacy, John K. Carlson

The shark complex (spiny dogfish, Pacific sleeper shark, salmon shark and other/unidentified sharks) in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) is assessed on a biennial stock assessment schedule that coincides with the availability of new trawl survey biomass estimates. In alternate (even) years we present an executive summary to recommend harvest levels for the next two years. For detailed information regarding the assessment, please refer to the last full stock assessment.

Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) surveys and fishery observer catch records provide biological information on shark species that occur in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) (Table 20.1 and Figure 20.1).  The three shark species most likely to be encountered in BSAI fisheries and surveys are the Pacific sleeper shark (Somniosus pacificus), the salmon shark (Lamna ditropis), and the spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi).

Learn more about recent International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) meeting in Malta

To dissect an extremely rare specimen, scientists wield a digital scalpel