Pacific Reef Shark Populations Plummeting, Study Says
Author: Matthew Knight
Source: CNN
April 28, 2012
"Humans are causing a steep decline in populations of reef sharks in the Pacific Ocean according to a new study by a group of international marine scientists.
The new estimates of reef sharks compared numbers around populated islands with those living near uninhabited ones. The results were sobering, say researchers.
"We estimate that reef shark numbers have dropped substantially around populated islands, generally by more than 90% compared to those at the most untouched reefs," said lead author Marc Nadon from the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research at the University of Hawaii."
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An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
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An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1ale
An international team of marine scientists has discovered that the population of reef sharks living the Pacific Ocean have decreased by at least 90% over the past several decades, claims a new study published online Friday in the journal Conservation Biology.
As part of the study, a group of eight scientists used underwater surveys collected over the past 10 years from 46 different US Pacific islands and atolls as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, one of the institutions involved in the research, said in an April 27 statement.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1alej)