Compensatory Growth of the Sandbar Shark in the Western North Atlantic Including the Gulf of Mexico

• Published in: Marine and Coastal Fisheries
• Main Authors: Romine, J. G., Musick, John A., Johnson, R. A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2013
• Subjects: CARCHARHINUS-PLUMBEUS; AGE-DETERMINATION; CHONDRICHTHYAN FISHES; BOMB RADIOCARBON; UNITED-STATES; LAMNA-NASUS; VALIDATION; PARAMETERS; SELECTION; CURVE; Fisheries Science Peer-Reviewed Articles; Marine Biology; Low Point; Lamna nasus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsarticles/72; https://scholarworks.wm.edu/context/vimsarticles/article/1071/viewcontent/Compensatory_Growth_of_the_Sandbar_Shark_in_the_Western_North_Atlantic_Including_the_Gulf_of_Mexico.pdf

The number of Sandbar Sharks Carcharhinus plumbeus in the western North Atlantic Ocean has experienced a drastic decline since the early 1980s, reaching a minimum during the early 1990s. Catch rates in the early 1990s were a mere 25% of those during the 1980s. According to several fishery-independen...