- Title
- Spatial and seasonal distribution patterns of juvenile and adult raggedtooth sharks (Carcharias taurus) tagged off the east coast of South Africa
- Creator
- Dicken, Matthew L, Booth, Anthony J, Smale, Malcolm J, Cliff, G
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/126997
- Identifier
- vital:35942
- Identifier
- https://doi.10.1071/MF06018
- Description
- Crucial to effective fisheries management is a thorough understanding of the stock structure of a population. Understanding the spatial and seasonal distribution patterns of a species is necessary to define habitat use and evaluate the potential effects of exploitation and anthropogenic activities. This is particularly important for a species such as the raggedtooth shark (Carcharias Taurus Rafinesque, 1810), whose life-history characteristics make it particularly susceptible to over-exploitation (Pollard et al. 1996; Smith et al. 1998; Compagno 2001). Exploitation, even at low levels for a slow-growing, late-maturing species that only produces two pups every other year, could reduce the population growth rate, could reduce the population growth rate to values of λ<1.0, resulting in severe population declines in a very short time period (Baum et al. 2003).
- Format
- 8 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Marine and freshwater research, Dicken, M.L., Booth, A.J., Smale, M.J. and Cliff, G., 2007. Spatial and seasonal distribution patterns of juvenile and adult raggedtooth sharks (Carcharias taurus) tagged off the east coast of South Africa. Marine and Freshwater Research, 58(1), pp.127-134, Marine and freshwater research volume 58 number 1 127 134 2007 1323-1650
- Rights
- Marine and freshwater research
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the CSIRO Publishing Copyright Statement (http://www.publish.csiro.au/journals/copyright)
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