A couple posts ago I recapped fishery management measures that have gone into place for spiny and smooth dogfish. Those measures covered dogfish fisheries in federal waters, which are defined as waters between 3 and 100 miles off the coast. Waters within 3 miles are…
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…
It’s been a long time coming, but the work I’ve been doing on spiny dogfish feeding ration has finally seen publication. For those with access, the paper (published in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management) is now available online (and if you don’t have…
Field work season is heating up, figuratively and literally. Before I start another series of posts on updates from the water, here’s a quick recap with accompanying photos of a little project I’ve been involved with for the past couple months (and/or year). Readers who’ve…
Last week the European Union considered a petition to ban on all products made from spiny dogfish. The petition, put forward by the representative from Germany, would have banned trade of all spiny dogfish products, and barring that called for changing the names of some…
I’ve been meaning to get back into writing about research done by other people (especially if it concerns the mighty spiny dogfish) for some time. Fortunately, a pretty interesting paper has just come out by researchers at Stony Brook and the National Marine Fisheries Service…
A funny thing happened since the last time I posted: a paper of mine got published. As of last week, this paper on evaluating a nonlethal way of collecting shark stomach contents has been available via Google Scholar. Authored by myself, my advisor, and a…
You may have noticed that it’s been two and half months since something went up here. I can assure you, I’ve been a busy little grad student in that time. One of the reasons is that I’ve been working on a couple of field/lab projects…