Throwback to Saturday; already missing the awesome Ichs-Herps-Sharks crew @ASIHCopeia #JMIH16 #AES16! #TBT

David Whysharksmatter Shiffman Top 5 things I learned at the American Elasmobranch Socie...

Top 5 things I learned at the #AES16 #JMIH16 sawfish symposium www.facebook.com/whysharksmatter/posts/10...

Team @HammerschlagLab is back in Florida...only ten more hours until Miami. Florida is a big state. #JMIH16 #AES16

Team @HammerschlagLab is en route back to Miami. Great to see everyone at #jmih16 #aes16

Great to see Doc Gruber back at #AES16 #JMIH16 !

.@HammerschlagLab at #AES16 #JMIH16 @univmiami @UMiamiRSMAS

Fantastic sawfish symposium! And that's it for #AES16 #JMIH16 talks. Next year in Austin, TX (cc @chenghlee )

#AES16 #JMIH16 @SharkAdvocates : sawfish are getting more attention and more protection in last 20 years, in deep trouble but a way forward

#AES16 #JMIH16 @SharkAdvocates : 29 elasmobranchs listed on convention on migratory species

#AES16 #JMIH16 @SharkAdvocates : US took the lead on 1997 CITES listing for sawfish, it failed. Success in 2007

#AES16 #JMIH16 @SharkAdvocates : as of 1997 there were essentially zero sawfish conservation regulations. Canada opposed the first CITES

Every time a #AES16 presenter says "social media" (N=5 today), a @WhySharksMatter gets his wings.

#AES16 #JMIH16 @SharkAdvocates : sawfish get waaaaaay less funding than sea turtles and marine mammals

#AES16 #JMIH16 @SharkAdvocates : sawfish are "super duper endangered"

#AES16 #JMIH16 @SharkAdvocates : progress and priorities for preventing sawfish extinction and promoting recovery

#AES16 #JMIH16 Moore: shark conservation needs to focus more on technological solutions to bycatch particularly gillnets in developing world

#AES16 #JMIH16 Moore: shark conservation doesn't focus on the human side enough.

#AES16 #JMIH16 Moore: Shark conservation doesn't involve enough learning from successes and failures of conserving other animals

#AES16 #JMIH16 Moore: many guitarfish species live in countries with essentially no fisheries management or enforcement infrastructure

#AES16 #JMIH16 Moore: 50 species of guitarfish, more discovered all the time, mostly quite poorly studied

#AES16 #JMIH16 Moore: Guitarfish are on the same track as Sawfish but not quite as threatened yet. Can we stop the decline?

#AES16 #JMIH16 Moore: can we learn from sawfish to protect guitarfish?

#AES16 #JMIH16 White/Duke: AZA donated $150,000,000 to conservation efforts last year

#AES16 #JMIH16 White/Duke: children's drawings of sawfish after an educational presentation #Adorbs #NotADataSlide

#AES16 #JMIH16 White/Duke: can also use aquarium captive sawfish for biological research, and as ambassadors for their species to the public

#AES16 #JMIH16 White/Duke: Designed a container for transporting 3.5m sawfish, they can survive in it for 36 hours

#AES16 #JMIH16 White/Duke: working on an aquarium based rehabilitation and release program for injured sawfish

(I've seen the first ever captive bred sawfish!) #AES16 #JMIH16 White/Duke (at @Atlantisresort )

#AES16 #JMIH16 White/Duke: the elasmobranch husbandry manual, the result of a recent conference, is available for free online.

#AES16 #JMIH16 White/Duke: there are currently 71 aquarium-captive sawfish in the world. 4 of the 5 species.