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Sawfish News


Razor-sharp sawfish snout seized from Regina airport
Chainsaw sharks: The plight of the world's weirdest fish, New Scientist by Lesley Ogden-Evans PDF

Save Our Sawfish | Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Rhinos of the Sea (
Nashörner de meere) Der Speigel by
Philip Bethge

Anglers
....If you catch one, DO NOT LIFT SAWFISH OUT OF THE WATER,
This Disaster On Twitter Is Why You Shouldn't Harass Endangered Animals from the DODO, "it is illegal to "harm, possess, harass, or handle them in any way." Any sawfish caught must be kept in the water "at all times" — meaning that pulling one onto the beach for a photo opportunity is in violation of the Endangered Species Act. "

Sonja's ESA Smalltooth Sawfish factsheet (Shark Advocates International)

Sawfish from the 17th Century
http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/jonston/vol1/jpg/s261.html
http://thelordgeekington.wordpress.com/category/sorta-science/

Once common off the coast of the UAE, sawfish have all but disappeared by Vesela Todorova in The National, reporting on Alec's paper:

Moore ABM. 2014. Sawfishes (Pristidae) in the Arabian region: history, diversity, distribution, and conservation.  Aquatic Conservation

The Search for Sawfishes in West Africa

In Indonesia, a Major Arrest of Manta Ray Trader by Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries WCS release 30th September 2014

Buy a replica sawfish blade

Breaking News: Endangered Sawfish: New Strategy Released, Global Protection Proposed

Plundered for their unique body parts, sawfish are on the brink. Peter Kyne in The Conservation

Search for near extinct sawfish , The Star Malaysia

UMS, researchers, experts to save sawfish of Borneo
Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2014/07/02/ums-researchers-experts-to-save-sawfish-of-borneo/#ixzz36KZUq8Mx

150 sawfish rostra for sale on gumtree Australia


Fishing, Chinese medicine, and a crazy-looking snout are driving sawfish to extinction

Endangered sawfish strategy - World Fishing News

Shark Conservationists Announce Strategy to Conserve Sawfish


Launch of a new Global Conservation Strategy for Sawfishes

Guinea, neighbour lead campaign to protect endangered sawfish
SA sees launch of bid to save sawfish

Global strategy to save sawfish

Presentan en Sudáfrica una nueva estrategia de protección del pez sierra

USA Fisherman lands endangered sawfish off Sanibel shore 

See how NOAA is studying and conserving Smalltooth Sawfish

Australian endangered species: Largetooth Sawfish by Peter Kyne Regional Vice Chair of IUCN SSG

Giant sawfish rostrum perfect specimen 47 teeth 143cm long !! $2,500.00

Australia's Draft recovery plan for Sawfish and River Sharks: (Pristis pristis, Pristis zijsron, Pristis clavata, Glyphis glyphis and Glyphis garricki

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Aquatic Conservation Virtual Volume

Leeney RH, Poncelet P. 2013. Using fishers’ ecological knowledge to assess the status and cultural importance of sawfish in Guinea-Bissau. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

Moore ABM. 2014. Sawfishes (Pristidae) in the Arabian region: history, diversity, distribution, and conservation.
Aquatic Conservation - Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

Carlson JK, Simpfendorfer CA. 2014. Recovery potential of smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, in the United States determined using population viability models.
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Carlson JK, Gulak SJB, Simpfendorfer CA, Grubbs RD, Romine JG, Burgess GH. 2013. Movement patterns and habitat use of smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, determined using pop-up satellite archival tags. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Fernandez-Carvalho J, Imhoff JL, Faria VV, Carlson JK, Burgess GH. 2013. Status and the potential for extinction of the largetooth sawfish Pristis pristis in the Atlantic Ocean.
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2394.

Whitty JM, Phillips NM, Thorburn DC, Simpfendorfer CA, Field I, Peverell SC, Morgan DL. 2013. Utility of rostra in the identification of Australian sawfishes (Chondrichthyes: Pristidae).
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2398.



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