Empowering the next generations is key to creating decision-makers who care for the sea. To date, we have trained over 460 primary, high-school and university students in 1-4-day hands-on field courses. The training included topics on fisheries-independent megafauna monitoring techniques for sharks, rays, and turtles. The longer field courses included longline preparation, deployment, animal handling, in-water transects, abundance estimation work, size estimation, baited remote underwater video set-up and deployment, data collection, and basic analytical techniques. Several of the students have gone on to work in the marine field.
Fin Fiction: The Root of the Damaging Narrative Surrounding Sharks
“Dangerous, blood thirsty, sharp-toothed apex predator of the sea…” While reading this description, did your mind immediately conjure the image of a shark? Studies conducted