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Overfishing drives over one third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

Press materials to accompany the publication of a global summary of the status of sharks, rays and chimaeras
The embargo will lift when the  paper is published online at 11 am EST Monday 6th September


Overfishing drives over one third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis. 
Dulvy NK, Pacoureau N, Rigby CL, Pollom RA, Jabado RW, Ebert DA, Finucci B, Pollock CM, Cheok J, Derrick DH, Herman KB, Sherman CS, VanderWright WJ, Lawson JM, Walls RHL, Carlson JK, Charvet P, Bineesh KK, Fernando D, Ralph GM, Matsushiba JH, Hilton-Taylor C, Fordham SV and Simpfendorfer CA. (2021) Current Biology 31.


Find the paper here

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Browse the richness and threat maps here
(thanks to Jay Matsushiba):
https://nickdulvy.github.io/SharkReassessment/

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