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The Sharks & Rays Conservation Research Program is dedicated to studying the biology, ecology and conservation of sharks and their relatives, the skates and rays. These fishes comprise about 1,000 species worldwide, many of which are threatened by overfishing and environmental impacts.
Expanding the Global FinPrint: An exciting new initiative
Reef sharks are in trouble worldwide. Here at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, we re applying science and people power to save them through a new initiative called Expanding the Global FinPrint.
Lessons learned
The world’s largest shark survey, Global FinPrint, found that reef sharks were functionally extinct on many reefs in the 58 survey nations. This resulted in most species of reef sharks being listed as being threatened with extinction by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Expanding the Global FinPrint
Reef sharks are in trouble worldwide. Here at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, we re applying science and people power to save them.
Lessons learned
The world’s largest shark survey, Global FinPrint, found that reef sharks were functionally extinct on many reefs in the 58 survey nations. This resulted in most species of reef sharks being listed as being threatened with extinction by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
People power
Global FinPrint showed that reef sharks were doing well in places where people invested in management efforts that were culturally and socio-economically suited to the local community. This illustrates the importance of people power for shark conservation.
Enel said that the marine energy generator is the first of its kind installed in Latin America.
OPT supplied the PB3 PowerBuoy, which has been installed 1.2km from the coast of the Coastal Marine Research Station.
Enel said the system is able to convert wave energy into electricity that is stored in a 50 kilowatt-hour battery system located inside the PB3 PowerBuoy, which feeds the different oceanographic sensors that monitor the marine environment.
“The information obtained from this device will allow us to learn about the behaviour of the waves, optimise the resource, and thus lead the investigation of this type of renewable energy in the country and in the world,” the company added.
Sea turtle nesting season underway with sighting in Venice A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling (Source: N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher) By ABC7 Staff | April 22, 2021 at 12:38 PM EDT - Updated April 22 at 12:38 PM
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Suncoast’s first loggerhead sea turtle nest of the season has been documented in Venice, researchers say.
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Conservation & Research Program says the nest was spotted Thursday, just north of the public Venice Beach area.
Mote began monitoring Sarasota area beaches April 15, and volunteers saw the telltale signs of a nest during their patrol early Thursday morning. Turtle tracks, called a crawl, were seen leading from the water up to a nest, and other clues in the sand were used to identify the nest itself and the species that created the nest.
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