Collage by Kelsey Manners Dickson

#saveourseasfoundation #SOSF2026Projects #Nigeria #wedgefish #Africa #DNA #eDNA

Following quickly after giant guitarfishes, the annotation "A zero annual export quota for wild-taken specimens traded for commercial purposes" for Wedgefishes have just been successfully adopted at the #CITESCoP20

#CITES #CoP20 #wedgefish #shark #ray #chimaera #biodiversity #conservation #trade

🦈 #Shark
#hammerhead
#Ray #wedgefish #Indonesia

Paying fisherman to release endangered species doesn't always work.

"Interviews with the fishers revealed...trying harder to catch fish so that they could cash in on the payments."

www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/when...

Conservation impacts and hidden actions in a randomized controlled trial of a marine pay-to-release program Pay-to-release program encouraged live release of endangered marine taxa but led some fishers to increase catches of those taxa.

🦈 #Shark
#hammerhead
#Ray #wedgefish

"...the pay-to-release program also induced some vessels to increase their catch...increasing hammerhead mortality by 44% (CI: 8 to 92%)."

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Never fails. Every time I visit this landing site in Cam Norte, I find the Critically Endangered #wedgefish being sold. #conservePHsharks #wedgeontheedge #sharkada

After many hours at sea with Gabonese & Congolese fishers, Congolese fisheries agents & a Gabonese PhD student, the team successfully tagged #tigersharks, blackchin #guitarfish & African #wedgefish with Tags4Wildlife tags - we look forward to sharing more!
@phildoherty.bsky.social

#Sharks and #rays play important role in the local economy & #foodsecurity across the region. This study observed landing of 42 different species - 81% considered at elevated risk of extinction, including observations of most imperilled families – #guitarfish, #wedgefish & #angelsharks ⚠️

New #OA paper using long-term landing site surveys in Rep. of Congo tinyurl.com/sp7pvfcb Tens of thousands of #sharks landed annually in important artisanal #fishery inc. juveniles Critically endangered species thought absent in region - stronghold for #wedgefish & #guitarfish? 🧪🦑🌎🐡🦈

A multi-national research team from Indonesia, Australia, & the USA are looking for one of the world’s most #EndangeredFish, the Clown #Wedgefish (#𝑅ℎ𝑦𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖), a fish so elusive it has only ever been recorded at fish markets.
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