2015 turned out to be a pretty big year for the most under-appreciated sharks in the sea. Now that it’s a new year that promises to offer more cool small shark science, it’s time for a look back at what happened with the spiny and…
In 2012, the Atlantic spiny dogfish fishery became one of the first shark fisheries to be certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (the first was another dogfish fishery, this one targeting North Pacific spiny dogfish in British Columbia waters). The MSC is the…
Things had been going pretty well for U.S. dogfish fisheries. In June 2010, after half a decade of an essentially closed fishery, the U.S. Atlantic stock was considered rebuilt. Shortly after, representatives of the fishery petitioned and successfully received sustainability certification from the Marine Stewardship…