Full title: Sharks : biology and fisheries : proceedings of an international conference on shark biology and conservation, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia, 25 February - 1 March 1991 / editor: Julian G. Pepperell.

Author/creator: Pepperell, Julian G, CSIRO.

Call Numbers: T0388256

Record Identifier: 74VKqPK4GwDO

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: 349 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm., Capture and transportation of elasmobranchs, with emphasis on the grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) / Masrk F.L. Smith., Economics of resource conservation in a commercial shark fishery / David Campbell, Tony Battaglene and Walter Shafron -- Protection against shark attack in South Africa, 1952-90 / Geremy Cliff and Sheldon F.J. Dudley -- Long-term studies of serum concentrations of reproductively related steroid hormones in individual captive carcharhinids / L.E.L. Rasmussen and Frank L. Murru -- Assessment of catches from protective shark meshing off New South Wales beaches between 1950 and 1990 / D.D. Reid and M. Krogh -- Growth, age estimation and feeding of captive sevengill sharks, Notorynchus cepedianus, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium / Gilbert Van Dykhuizen and Henry F. Mollet -- A new record extending the southerly distribution of the shark ray (Rhina Ancylostomus), and notes on the behaviour of the specimen in captivity / Ian Gordon --, Preliminary observations on the biology of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in South Australian waters / B.D. Bruce -- Movements and associated observations of bait-attracted white sharks, carcharodon carcharias: a preliminary report / Wesley R. Strong Jr ... [et al.] -- Review of the biology of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) / John E. Randall -- Biology of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) caught by the Queensland shark meshing program off Townsville, Australia / Colin Simpfendorfer -- Tagging studies on the shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Western North Atlantic / John G. Casey and Nancy E. Kohler -- Tracking coastal sharks with small boats: hammerhead shark pups as a case study / K.N. Holland ... [et al.] -- Reproductive strategy of the Australian sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon taylori (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhinidae), from Cleveland Bay, Northern Queensland / Colin A. Simpfendorfer --, Reexamination of the fine structure of endoskeletal mineralisation in chondrichthyans: implications for growth, ageing and calcium homeostasis / J.G. Clement -- Demography of the central California population of the leopard shark (Triakis semifasciata) / Gregor M. Cailliet -- Fishery simulation model for sharks applied to the gummy shark, Mustelus antarcticus Günther, from southern Australian waters / Terence I. Walker -- Trends in the distribution, species composition and size of sharks caught by gamefish anglers off south-eastern Australia, 1961-90 / Julian G. Pepperell -- Blue and mako shark by-catch in the Japanese longline fishery off south-eastern Australia / J.D. Stevens -- Preliminary results of a study into the incidental mortality of sharks in gill-nets in two Tasmanian shark nursery areas / Howel Williams and Alex H. Schaap --, Reproductive biology of the bigeye thresher shark, Alopias superciliosus (Lowe, 1839) / JuanA. Moreno and Julio Morón -- Diets of sharks from estuaries and adjacent waters of the north-easter Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia / J.P. Salini, S.J.M. Blaber and D.T. Brewer -- Electrophoretic analysis of phylogenetic relationships among Australian carcharhinid sharks / Shane Lavery -- Comparative study of the genus Isurus (Rafinesque, 1810), and description of a form ('marrajo criollo') apparently endemic to the Azores / Juan A. Moreno and Julio Morón -- Functional aspects of placoid scales: a review and update / W. Raschi and C. Tabit -- Tendon structure of the caudal fin in the blue shark, Prionace glauca / E.D. Keithan, J.Y. Ma and W. Raschi --

Publishers: [East Melbourne] : CSIRO, c1992.

Notes: Reprinted from: Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 43/1 1992. Includes bibliographies. Transferred from N597.31/30.

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