2010 American Elasmobranch Society Meeting, Providence Rhode Island.
The field of elasmobranch stress physiology has grown to such an extent that the subject warranted a special symposia at the 2010 American Elasmobranch Society Meeting held in Providence, Rhode Island. The stress physiology symposium entitled “The Physiological Stress Response in Elasmobranch Fishes”, was hosted and run by Dr Greg Skomal, and Dr John Mandelman, and was was kindly sponsored by The Fisheries Conservation Foundation, and the long time supporters of the CEI Shark Research and Conservation Program, the Save Our Seas Foundation.
Edd Brooks presenting on the the 2008 SOSF funded project, "The Physiological Consequences of Longline Capture in the Caribbean Reef Shark (Carcharhinus perezi)."
The Cape Eleuthera Institute was represented by the manager of the Shark Research and Conservation Program, Edd Brooks, who presented the findings of last year’s SOSF funded study into the effects of longline capture on the Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi). This ground breaking study used field based blood chemistry diagnostic equipment to look at the sub lethal effects of capture, combined with new acoustic tracking equipment to correspond the magnitude of the physiological disruption to any variation in post release behaviour. A copy of the AES presentation can be downloaded here, and the complete findings of the project will be published along with the rest of the presentations from the stress symposium in the Journal of Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology – Part A later this year. (more…)
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