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Here is my full piece for Swim On 10: Blue Planet! I thought for the biggest issue I should do the smallest shark ever: the dwarf lantern shark.
It's been a lot of fun tackling sharks in new and interesting ways these past 3 years, and all the accolades to Jey Pawlik for running this anthology for the last decade.
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Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 28, 2025 – The following statement was issued today from CITES CoP20, celebrating the sweeping and historic adop
From the article:
“This is a landmark victory, and it belongs to the Parties who championed these protections. Countries across Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, and Asia came together in a powerful show of leadership and solidarity, passing every shark and ray proposal tabled for the CoP covering over 70 species. These decisions could not be more urgent: sharks and rays are the second most imperiled group of species on the planet, and many are running out of time. These animals are vital to the health and balance of our oceans, shaping entire marine ecosystems integrity and underpinning cultural heritage for Indigenous Peoples and local communities all over the world. Today’s votes give them a real chance at recovery, and now we must carry this momentum through the final plenary vote and into swift implementation. The world chose action over extinction today and recognized sharks as essential marine wildlife, and these decisions offer real hope for the future of our oceans. We cannot let up now.” [...] Together, these listings close major loopholes in the international market for fins, gill plates, meat, and other products – longstanding pressures that have accelerated population collapse across our ocean.
Aquarium of the Pacific Partners with ReShark to Help Restore Endangered Zebra Sharks in the Wild
The Aquarium of the Pacific has partnered with ReShark to help to recover populations of endangered zebra sharks in Indonesia. The Aquarium is sending fertilized zebra shark eggs to support ReShark’s Stegostoma tigrinum Augmentation and Recovery Project (StAR Project), which is a global effort to restore endangered zebra sharks in regions where this species has disappeared or declined. The goal is for the zebra sharks to be tagged and released in a marine protected area in Raja Ampat once they have matured. Then they will be monitored to help ensure they adapt to their new environment.
When the Aquarium’s zebra sharks lay eggs, veterinary staff monitor the developing embryos inside via ultrasound. Once they are deemed healthy and ready for travel, eggs are sent to the Seattle Aquarium, a founding partner of ReShark. Seattle Aquarium prepares the eggs from partner facilities for transport to the zebra shark nurseries in Indonesia. The egg deliveries are timed so they hatch one month after they arrive at the nursery in Raja Ampat, where they are cared for by local aquarists who are part of this international conservation program.
“The Aquarium is thrilled to be part of this program to re-establish zebra shark populations in regions of the world where they are locally endangered and could face extinction. We’ve been working many years, including developing methods of artificial insemination, to produce more zebra shark offspring to help support these important conservation programs,” said Dr. Lance Adams, Aquarium of the Pacific veterinarian, who is part of the StAR Project Veterinary Working Group.
The Aquarium’s new role as a zebra shark egg breeding institution comes after several years of groundbreaking research done by its veterinary and animal care staff to support the global project. In 2013 the Aquarium became the first public aquarium to successfully reproduce zebra sharks through artificial insemination.
According to ReShark, “every shark selected for breeding undergoes rigorous screening for genetic provenance and reproductive viability to ensure the long-term health and sustainability of wild populations.” “We are very excited to welcome the Aquarium of the Pacific to our breeder roster. I’ve been following their team’s effort to have their broodstock produce viable eggs for StAR Project Indonesia for a few years now,” said Nesha Ichida, Project Manager of StAR Indonesia and Co-Chair of StAR Steering Committee.
Sharks serve an important role in their ecosystems. Zebra sharks are currently listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List mainly due to habitat degradation and human impact such as overfishing.
‘What a joke!’
Today, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission chose profit over conservation and turned back 20 years of conservation.
After months of a hard-earned ban on land-based shark fishing in Miami, FWC rolled back all bans across ALL Florida beaches— all while REFUSING to enforce or prosecute blatant violations against protected sharks and rays.
The evidence is clear: FWC is run by corrupt sellouts who trade Florida’s native endangered and threatened species for a pretty penny. We can all thank FWC for the active poaching of important marine species!
My full entry for this year's @swimonzine, featuring the lovely whale shark! Thanks again for having me, and thanks to everyone who purchases a copy for helping save sharks around the globe!
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Welcome to the first ever
Daily Splash! Featuring
JAWSHUA!
Jawshua is a juvenile scalloped hammerhead who has traveled over 3387.7 miles since he was tagged! Sharks like Jawshua are being tagged and tracked as a conservation tactic, as many of the known types of sharks are endangered!
Damn, speaking of wildlife harassment, Shark Week just aired open abuse and harassment of wild sharks in the name of "entertainment".
Jfc the way that guy just scoops up a resting nurse shark and swings him around, then hangs off his dorsal fin! Wtf is wrong with these people! Shark Week has always been terrible but this takes the cake for normalising wildlife harassment and abuse.
This is where this Ocean Ramsey influencer style of "conservation" aka "look at me ride a wild shark, it didn't bite me so it means they're safe" gets you. Also of course that guy only feels emboldened to harass sweet nurse sharks. Good luck doing this with a bull shark or a tiger shark.
Glad to see Shark Bytes calling this crap out (could have done without the SeaWorld comparison though)
Today is the 50th anniversary of Jaws! One of my favorite films ever, and one of the most iconic. And as a marine biologist on paper it would be easy to talk about the negative impact Jaws had on sharks, and that is probably true. Jaws scared whole generations of people into avoiding the ocean, and in some cases that fear led to a lot of hunting and killing sharks who didn’t do anything wrong. But Jaws did good for sharks too, and I think that doesn’t always get noticed. Think about how many marine biologists became marine biologists because of Jaws, and the impact those people have probably had on shark research and conservation. Finding Nemo was inspired by Jaws (Bruce the shark is named for the animatronic shark used in the film) and Finding Nemo was my inspiration. Hopefully one day I’ll do some good with it. Peter Benchley, the novel’s author, became a shark advocate and wrote additional novels about the ocean and conservation. Shark Week wouldn’t exist without Jaws, and neither would NatGeo’s Shark Fest, both of which raise shark awareness and promote shark research. There’s a lot of research about sharks that might not exist without the interest that Jaws generated. So on its 50th anniversary, I’m celebrating the good that Jaws has done, and for the future of marine conservation. Happy Jaws day!
