#JMIH23

As is my tradition, I donated a signed copy of my book to the student auction, outbid someone at the last minute, and gave it to them. @JHUPress #JMIH23 #AES23

Wonderful to have 3/4 of my @abesscenter PhD cohort presenting in the same session at #JMIH23 ! @dr_catmac @drjuliawester @univmiami

Next is @EPrasky , talking about depredation and what anglers want to do about it. #AES23 #JMIH23

Depredation has always happened, but anglers are saying it’s happening much much more often recently.

Next up at #JMIH23 #AES23 @drjuliawester : talking about the human values associated with shark conservation.

Read our paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aqc.3896

Counting Taylor Gamble’s talk title “you’re gonna need a bigger boat,” this year is the first time I can remember at an @ElasmoSociety conference that there were more references to SharkNado than to Jaws.

Is that anything? #AES23 #JMIH23

#JMIH23 #AES23 @dr_catmac : Scientists who care about what the public knows about sharks should focus on making widely-consumed media more accurate, and making sure people know that low-quality media is unreliable.

#JMIH23 #AES23 @dr_catmac : The public wrongly believed that great white sharks are the most threatened.

Media coverage and public awareness are closely related- great whites get the most media coverage.

#JMIH23 #AES23 @dr_catmac : There’s limited evidence of broad-scale public interest in shark wildlife tourism, but lots of people love aquariums. We should focus on conservation messaging at aquariums.

People are correct that plastic pollution isn’t a major threat to sharks.

#JMIH23 #AES23 @dr_catmac : Survey respondents learn about sharks from Shark Week, which “we as scientists might not consider to be especially accurate.” And therefore we should pay attention to what’s in that stuff!

Scientists trusted the most on shark issues.

#JMIH23 #AES23 @dr_catmac : A great deal of public science engagement focuses on “raising awareness,” but we need people to change their behavior, not just to “be aware”

#JMIH23 #AES23 @dr_catmac : Many shark scientists believe that negative public perceptions of sharks are a major conservation issue- they make it harder to convince people that sharks need to be saved. But public perceptions are changing.

#JMIH23 #AES23 @dr_catmac : Public attitudes affect conservation outcomes. If we care about conservation we have to care about what people think and what they know.

Someone asked me why I wasn’t wearing any shark clothing today at #AES23 #JMIH23

Excuse you, I most certainly am

Ready for my 8:15 talk at the American Elasmobranch Society conference, part of the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists! #JMIH23 #AES23 #BestShark

Some @CofC @CofCalumni @SCDNR folks at #JMIH23 @GriceMarineLab

#AES23 #JMIH23 @SharkAdvocates says that Jack Musick helped to make shark conservation policy a legitimate and professional discipline, not “a fallback if you failed at science”

Many shark conservation leaders are women, and Jack is still the only honorary “ElasmoBroad”

Another for the funny auto-caption corrections at #JMIH23 : “Holocephalan” to “Houseplant”

Attending #AES23 #JMIH23? Join me tomorrow/Sunday at 8:15 am (sorry I know ugh) to learn about sandbar sharks and stuff.

#JMIH23 #AES23 McMillan (Jack Musick’s widow) : “Jack believed that his legacy wasn’t his papers, or the world class fish collection be built- but what mattered the most to him was his students and their students”

(Here are his students and their students attending)

Today I am attending a memorial symposium for Jack Musick, a legend of shark science (and sea turtle science) who died in 2021. Jack worked on many things…including sandbar sharks, including on a sandbar shark project with me. #AES23 #JMIH23

Bowling at the @ElasmoSociety conference #JMIH23 #AES23

The @asu @ASUResearch ocean team at #JMIH23

Out if 331 shark and Ray species found in Australia, 107 are doing better in Australia than they are globally. - @sharkcolin #JMIH23 #AES23

How are Australia’s shark fisheries doing? #AES23 #JMIH23 @SharkColin

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You can read the Australian shark and Ray report card report here. #JMIH23 #AES23 @sharkcolin

#AES23 #JMIH23 @SharkColin : IUCN Red List assessments are done globally, but local contexts for some species can be very different. Some species are locally threatened, others are globally threatened but doing fine in some places. Fisheries legislation is national, not global.

Next at #AES23 #JMIH23 is @SharkColin talking about Australian shark fisheries management and efforts to improve sustainability called “the shark and ray report card”

The goal is to provide an Australian context accessible to fishers for global shark conservation issues

Lots of talks and papers make this claim. Want to learn how to tell if it’s actually true? Come to my American Elasmobranch Society poster tonight, featuring survey results from environmental advocates and government managers. #JMIH2023 #JMIH23 #AES2023 #AES23

Next up at #AES23 #JMIH23 is “estimating the composition of global shark and Ray fisheries” by @Drsharkbrain

The global shark meat market is worth $2.6 billion, nearly twice as much as the value of fins, according to the “uncovering the global shark meat project”

Brewster-Geisz #JMIH23 #AES23 : US shark fisheries management has been successful. Some stocks are rebuilt, many are healthy. But some fisheries are almost gone. Depredation is a growing flashpoint and people call for culls. Many members of the public hate any shark fishing.