Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: the uncertain future of manta and devil rays

• Published in: Aquatic conservation Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 562 - 575
• Main Authors: Croll, Donald A., Dewar, Heidi, Dulvy, Nicholas K., Fernando, Daniel, Francis, Malcolm P., Galván-Magaña, Felipe, Hall, Martin, Heinrichs, Shawn, Marshall, Andrea, Mccauley, Douglas, Newton, Kelly M., Notarbartolo-Di-Sciara, Giuseppe, O'Malley, Mary, O'Sullivan, John, Poortvliet, Marloes, Roman, Marlon, Stevens, Guy, Tershy, Bernie R., White, William T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Akvatisk ekologi; Aquatic Ecology; bycatch; coastal; conservation evaluation; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species; economic costs; Elasmobranchii; endangered species; fecundity; fish; fishing; Freshwater; life history; Manta; Marine; Mobula; monitoring; mortality; ocean; Thunnus; trade; tuna

Manta and devil rays of the subfamily Mobulinae (mobulids) are rarely studied, large, pelagic elasmobranchs, with all eight of well‐evaluated species listed on the IUCN Red List as threatened or near threatened. Mobulids have life history characteristics (matrotrophic reproduction, extremely low fec...