@alecbmmoore.bsky.social
Lecturer in marine top predator conservation @sosbangor.bsky.social I research: sharks & rays | marine historical ecology | fisheries | conservation 🏊🤿🎣🐟 PI of @projectfishistory.bsky.social Pic: Smoothtooth blacktip shark (Carcharhinus leiodon)
Fish folk - have you ever heard of old (18thC) name Mylwell or Melvell?🐟 @oceanspast.bsky.social @thefsbi.bsky.social @projectfishistory.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social
Apparently sometimes applied to cod, but not in this context (as named alongside, along with ling, conger, hake and bream)
For this month's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social prompt #EYAWildlife we have selected a watercolour illustration of a John Dory by William Yarrell. Yarrell authored 'A History of British Fishes' and it's believed these watercolours were used in preparation for the publication
📸 PYA1
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Two paid Marine Futures Internships in Bangor with the @northwaleswt.bsky.social
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/marine-...
For candidates who are passionate and enthusiastic about the seas, are willing to learn, organised, self-motivated, and can work well in a team.
A sobering discovery breaks the surface of Bangladesh’s fish markets. Most of the female sharpnose guitarfish landed are not sexually mature, whilst juveniles and newborns make up a portion of the catch.
Find out how Durjoy Raha Antu is working to halt their demise.
saveourseas.com/update/on-th...
A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates bit.ly/4b1Pu50
www.int-res.com/abstracts/es...
In Bangladesh, a protected guitarfish is still being caught, landed and sold. Interviews with fishers and traders expose the forces driving its decline. More below in Durjoy Raha Antu’s second blog.
saveourseas.com/update/caugh...
Aren't limpets primarily intertidal, and on the rocky shore? Neither good for fossilisation
It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.
Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G
In the Bay of Bengal, Durjoy Raha Antu and team are studying the breeding cycles of endangered sharpnose guitarfish to inform protections. But change also depends on coastal communities, whose knowledge and livelihoods are central to lasting protection.
saveourseas.com/update/why-r...
While the French were establishing a settlement in New Orleans and Blackbeard was killed off the Outer Banks of NC in 1718, a printer and bookseller in Amsterdam was producing a wondrous book on Indonesian fishes of which only 16 known copies survive today. 🐠 #SciArt
🚨New global review and next steps🚨
Intentional take of #seabirds for human consumption is happening in at least 56 countries and affects >100 migratory species. Data on sustainability, population impacts, and human health risks are often missing.
Read more: ➡️ tinyurl.com/ypbadzyr
#BLScience
Why the bizarre "AI-enhanced" images of guitarfish bycatch
@saveourseas.bsky.social ?
There are plenty of real life examples
We should not be encouraging use of "enhanced" images when conservation relies on robust evidence
I research 🦈
Just been invited to be guest editor on a journal dedicated to 🕷️
by a well-known brand of journals
Check out this film in @pontiobangor.bsky.social. The film takes audiences into the depths of the Pacific Ocean, following scientists exploring one of the least understood ecosystems on Earth.
Friday 20 March at 5pm
www.wowfilmfestival.com/howdeepisyou...
Great resource on animal migrations for researchers & decision-makers, from @cms.int
Examples: saiga antelope and puffin
Excited to share some work on spatial variability in localized upwelling regimes on coral reefs at #OSM26 today!
@sosbangor.bsky.social @eco-oce-lab.bsky.social
📄New paper out in Behaviour doi.org/10.1163/1568539X-bja10356
🐦 Ambush behaviour is rarely reported among #seabirds. We observed that #MediterraneanShag might employ this strategy to seize fish schools. Our knowledge on seabird #foragingbehaviour is still lacking!
#ornithology
NEW RESEARCH 🚨
Researchers identify ultrasonography as reliable method of determining sex in migrating silver eels. This technique was shown to be more reliable than molecular marking, and removes the need for sacrifice.
@mjw-marine.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🦑🧪🌍🦤🌐
Awesome # ichthyology work by
@lampichthys.bsky.social
and co.
A pugnosed ponyfish that glows two ways:
Bacterial bioluminescent wavelengths elicit biofluorescent emissions in the ponyfish genus Deveximentum
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Scientists have captured footage of a sleeper shark farther south than ever before, suggesting this Antarctic ocean is not shark-free
Check out this nice infographic on our recent study on killer whale responses to pilot whales sounds. Thanks @whalescientists.bsky.social for putting this together and spreading the word! 🤓🐳🔈
#bioacoustics #MarineMammals #whales #SciCom
Really interesting study!
(You might want to tweak the figure, as it looks like a bowmouth guitarfish has snuck into the sharks - perhaps was supposed to be an angel shark?)
Really interesting study using royal hunting records to document diversity & abundance of mammals & birds in C18th Spain, with insights into historical decline of e.g. lynx @ystadaucymru.bsky.social @leafyhistory.bsky.social @projectfishistory.bsky.social @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social
The NERC Special Committee on Seals (SCOS) 2025 report is now live on the SMRU website: www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2026/0....
Updated population trends analysis and advice to gov relating to management of UK seal populations 🦭📈📉
Guitarfish (🦈-like rays) are one of the most threatened groups of vertebrates, widely caught as bycatch
Mitigation of fishing gear can help address this
Interesting new study👇 shows simple💡can reduce shark & ray bycatch (inc guitarfish) - with no significant effect on overall catch of bony 🐟
