Abundance, distribution and conservation value of sharks in the Galapagos Marine Reserve

• Main Author: Penaherrera Palma, CR
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: fisheries; Galapagos Marine Reserve; historical trends; home range; local ecological knowledge; marine protected area; population size; sharks; Darwin Island; Galapagos; Pacific
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23483/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23483/1/Penaherrera_Palma_whole_thesis.pdf

The Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR) is the largest reserve in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP), covering approximately `138000 km^2` of the pelagic environment surrounding the Galapagos Islands. The GMR hosts 33 species of sharks, of which two are endangered, four are near threatened, and eleven ar...