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Courtmacsherry has an abundance of flapper skates so researchers have headed there to deploy animal tracking technology to learn more about these unusual creatures
In the face of climate change, many species are looking for ways to adapt and survive.
Fisheries management is essential to guarantee sustainable capture of target species and avoid undesirable declines of incidentally captured species. A key challenge is halting and reversing declines of shark and ray species, and specifically assessing the degree to which management is sufficient to avoid declines in relatively data-poor fisheries. While ecological risk analyses focus on intrinsic ‘productivity’ and extrinsic ‘susceptibility’, one would ideally consider the influence of ‘fisheries management’. Currently, there is no single management evaluation that can be applied ...