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britfinucci.bsky.social
Fisheries Scientist. Itinerant ghost shark hugger. Interested in the deep sea. NZ Muay Thai Champ.
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My new favourite game: Turtle or Not Turtle. This game gets surprisingly difficult real fast when they're not at the surface.

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

New summary of 2 massive recent publications documenting the status and trends of sharks, rays, and chimaeras 🧪🦈🌎 @mongabay.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2025/01/new-...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

The Important Shark and Ray Areas (ISRA) project has completed another region! We are excited to announce the update to our eAtlas (www.sharkrayareas.org) and our latest compendium.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting new paper from the Manta Trust on the trade in mobulid products (especially gill plates). Despite CITES and CMS listings, fishing continues to threaten this iconic groups of rays. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #sharkconservation #sharkresearch #mobulids #CITES

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk 👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends 🧵1/20

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: The IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group has released a new report on the global conservation status of sharks and their relatives. portals.iucn.org/library/node...

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

The IUCN SSC SSG was established to respond to growing awareness and concern of the severe impact of fisheries on shark, ray, and chimaera populations globally. The SSG is recognized as the leading authority on the status of these species, using science to support actions for conservation.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand.

submitted 154 days ago • 2 comments

One in seven species (14%) of deepwater sharks and rays is threatened with extinction - and overfishing is the main reason theconversation.com/fished-for-t...

submitted 355 days ago • 0 comments

I gotta say that while everyone knows sandbar shark is #BestShark, I deeply and sincerely appreciate @britfinucci.bsky.social taking time out of what's gotta be one of the busiest days of her career to troll me personally. I like roughsharks a lot, worry not.

submitted 355 days ago • 1 comment

Scientific American article by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social quotes @sharkadvocates.bsky.social “It’s been at least 15 years since scientists sounded alarm bells over the serious depletion of deepwater dogfish and gulper sharks off Europe” www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep...

submitted 355 days ago • 0 comments

"Deepwater Sharks Are Threatened by Demand for Liver Oil" by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social "Scientists & conservationists hope that this important and troubling new report will help to raise the alarm to protect the “deep-sea pandas” and other species." 🦑🌍🐟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep...

submitted 355 days ago • 0 comments

#Bestshark made the cover of Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 355 days ago • 1 comment