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SHARKS AND RAYS – LISTED ON INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

RHINO RAYS - LISTED ON INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

These factsheets about human impacts on sharks and rays, authored by Simon J Pierce and Ryan Charles, address the five most important threats to sharks and rays, (1) overfishing, (2) climate change

The Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is a large subtropical to temperate water species.

The Silky Shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) is an abundant, oceanic and epipelagic shark.

The Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is the world’s largest living fish, found globally in tropical and warm temperate waters.

All three species of Thresher Shark belong to the genus Alopias and include the Pelagic (Alopias pelagicus), Bigeye (Alopias superciliosus) and Common (Alopias vulpinus)

The Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias), also known as Picked Dogfish or Spurdog, is a demersal shark that has a maximum length of 125 cm in the North Atlantic.

The family Pristidae consists of five Sawfish species Narrow Sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata), Dwarf Sawfish (Pristis clavata), Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis pectinata), La

The Porbeagle (Lamna nasus) occupies epipelagic habitats in temperate seas. They live up to 65 years with low fecundity and a female age at maturity of 13-17 years.

The Shortfin Mako Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) and the Longfin Mako Shark (Isurus paucus) occupy epipelagic habitats in tropical and warm-temperate seas.

The Great Hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) and Scalloped Hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) sharks are long lived, late maturing, and relatively slow growing.

The White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) inhabits coastal and offshore pelagic waters of subtropical and temperate seas.  White Sharks have low fecundity, and females attain sexu

The Devil and Manta Rays (family Mobulidae, the Mobulid Rays) are slow-growing, large-bodied animals with some species occurring in small, highly fragmented populations.