Sharks Publications

• Codes of conduct: Shark encounters
• Code of conduct: Basking Shark encounters
• Canada's Progress Report on the Implementation of Key Actions Taken Pursuant to the National Plan of Action on the Conservation and Management of Sharks (March 2007)
• National Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks
• Sharks of Atlantic Canada

Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS)

• Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) publications
• Advisory documents for sharks
• Research documents for sharks

Other publications

• Mating scars reveal mate size in immature female blue shark Prionace glauca
• Movements of Arctic and northwest Atlantic Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) monitored with archival satellite pop-up tags suggest long-range migrations
• Age determination of elasmobranchs, with special reference to Mediterranean species: a technical manual. Studies and Reviews. General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean
• Population dynamics of Northwest Atlantic porbeagle (Lamna nasus), with an assessment of status and projections for recovery
• Shark predation on migrating adult American Eels (Anguilla rostrata) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
• Migration pathways, behavioural thermoregulation and overwintering grounds of blue sharks in the Northwest Atlantic
• Evaluating post-release behaviour modification in large pelagic fish deployed with pop-up satellite archival tags
• Subtropical pupping ground for a cold-water shark
• Population dynamics of porbeagle in the northwest Atlantic, with an assessment of status to 2009 and projections for recovery
• Age validation of great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran), determined by bomb radiocarbon analysis
• Growth and reproduction of spiny dogfish off the eastern coast of Canada, including inferences on stock structure
• Bycatch and discard mortality in commercially caught blue sharks Prionace glauca assessed using archival satellite pop-up tags
• Comparability of blue shark mortality estimates for the Atlantic and Pacific longline fisheries
• Commercial by-catch rates of blue shark (Prionace glauca) from longline fisheries in the Canadian Atlantic
• Commercial by-catch rates of shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) from longline fisheries in the Canadian Atlantic
• Reproductive characteristics and population decline of four species of skate (Rajidae) off the eastern coast of Canada
• Bomb dating and age determination of skates (family Rajidae) off the eastern coast of Canada
• Status of spiny dogfish in Atlantic and Pacific Canada
• The rise and fall (again) of the porbeagle shark population in the Northwest Atlantic
• The biology and ecology of the porbeagle shark
• Changes in baseline growth and maturation parameters of Northwest Atlantic porbeagle, Lamna nasus, following heavy exploitation
• Age under-estimation in New Zealand porbeagle sharks (Lamna nasus): is there an upper limit to ages that can be determined from shark vertebrae?
• Bomb dating and age validation using the spines of spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)
• Effects of recreational and commercial fishing on blue sharks (Prionace glauca) in Atlantic Canada, with inferences on the North Atlantic population
• Catch, bycatch and indices of population status of blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the Canadian Atlantic
• Temperature and depth associations of porbeagle shark (Lamna nasus) in the northwest Atlantic
• Comparison of whole and sectioned vertebrae for determining the age of young blue shark (Prionace glauca)
• Bomb dating and age determination of large pelagic sharks
• Population dynamics of the porbeagle shark in the Northwest Atlantic
• The reproductive biology of the porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus, in the North Atlantic Ocean
• Analysis of stomach contents of the porbeagle shark (Lamna nasus Bonnaterre) in the northwest Atlantic
• Validated age and growth of the porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus, in the western North Atlantic Ocean