Late last summer, I embarked with an intrepid crew of Duke grad students to track bull sharks in the Neuse River. We came up empty-handed that time, but a year later I found myself going back for another crack at catching, tagging, and following the…
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is often painted by fishermen as a rabidly pro-conservation agency hell-bent on putting them out of a job by protecting every species they used to fish. However, leaked internal memos show that the agency is taking a turn back…
Last weekend I attended the 26th Annual Meeting of the Tidewater Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, better known as AFS Tidewater or just plain Tidewater. To recap, this conference encompasses fisheries academics, students, and managers from the so-called “tidewater region,” which is made up…
As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve spent the weekend in Charleston hanging out with David “WhySharksMatter” Shiffman and taking part in the coastal shark survey run out of the Charleston SCDNR lab. Since most of my work has been based on trawl data, I…
A recent post over at Chronicles of Zostera referenced a paper that has become a monster in the world of marine ecology and shark conservation. That paper: Myers et al. (2007). It’s actually a relatively unassuming paper kind of tucked into an issue of Science,…