You might think that the title of this post refers to the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), the main species of interest for this blog. You’d be wrong. You’d also be wrong to guess the great white, as badass a shark as that is. This post…
During my last trip out to the field, I documented a small shark that came up in the gillnet, and identified it as a juvenile blacktip shark. Now, after looking over the picture in better detail and consulting the literature, I’m not so sure. I’m…
After most of a semester in the office, I finally managed to get out on the water this past weekend. I traveled down to Hatteras with Andrea to help out with the latest piece of his project tracking different life stages of spiny dogfish. He…
What happens when a surf fisherman in Miami lands an enormous great hammerhead on Super Bowl Sunday? A conversation about regulations, engaging stakeholders, and my first attempt at Storify. Read on.
Recently Jason Goldman at the great blog The Thoughtful Animal (if you have any interest in animal behavior at all, you should be following it) put up a post titled “Sharks With Friends.” In that post, he summarizes a recent paper showing that blacktip sharks…
Whatever your flavor of yuletide cheer, have yourself a quality Christmas Eve. Here’s that most secular of winter holiday icons giving the gift of tasty fish to sand tiger sharks in Auckland, NZ.
Back in the day (earlier this year) Andrew at Southern Fried Science had a series of posts called “Finding Melville’s Whale,” in which he poetically summarized chapters of the Herman Melville classic (and required reading for anyone serious about the salty life) Moby Dick. These…
It’s good to be back. Lots of news in the dogfish and shark fisheries while I’ve been busy. The ASMFC officially announced that they would be increasing next year’s spiny dogfish quota to 30 million pounds, up from the 20 million pounds this year. The…
I’ve reached that point where I’m starting to apologize in each post for how long its been since the previous post. Well, no more apologies. I’ve been buried in both starting the PhD and finishing the Masters, and unfortunately the free time to post has…
Tip o’ the hat to The Dorsal Fin for finding and posting video of Dr. Zasloff, lead author on the recent study showing how dogfish liver oil can fight viruses, explaining how this whole process works. It works a little differently from how I interpreted…