Brit Finucci
@britfinucci.bsky.social
Fisheries Scientist. Itinerant ghost shark hugger. Interested in the deep sea. NZ Muay Thai Champ.
Great to team up with @cgmull.bsky.social @nickdulvy.bsky.social @britfinucci.bsky.social, Victoria and Jeff, to bring sharks, rays, and chimaeras to the larger discourse on deep-sea mining. This paper is also my first first-author publication and I am excited it could be this one!
I've waited a decade to finally have the chance to work with this ghost #shark 👻🦈 legend. While we were geeking away on this giant beast, we also got word that the first and only Ghost Sharks of the World book finally has a released date. Coming to you January 2026!
Remember that first global record of megamouth shark pups? It's finally published in a scientific journal! Read all about it here: doi.org/10.31398/tpjf This study was partly supported by @mwwphilippines.bsky.social #AtingPating grants. Congratulations to the authors!
New #sharkscience from Cornelia Erk & stellar cast of ghost shark researchers. Genetic diversity of American elephantfish showing "recent" arrival in South America. And as a bonus, relationship between the 3 Callorhinchus spp doi.org/10.1111/jfb.... @britfinucci.bsky.social @iucnshark.bsky.social
Sharktopus 🦈🐙 sighting. One of the more unusual things I’ve seen #shark #octopus #NewZealand #UniversityofAuckland newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/09/i...
In a summer of sharks, a sighting to top them all
From the University of Auckland – Comment: Sharks have been on our minds lately thanks to several publicised incidents. But what else is there to know about these amazing creatures?
newsroom.co.nz
Save Our Seas Foundation@saveourseas.bsky.social · last yr.What are the chances of a tag making its way back to a scientist from a deep sea shark? Higher than one might think, demonstrated by the return of three tags to Brit Finucci and team following the tagging of gulper sharks off of New Zealand. More below. saveourseas.com/update/groun...
Perhaps they were subtly sharing their true feelings for the person they named it after 🙃
Colin Simpfendorfer@sharkcolin.bsky.social · last yr.calling @britfinucci.bsky.social
My new favourite game: Turtle or Not Turtle. This game gets surprisingly difficult real fast when they're not at the surface.
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-...
news.mongabay.com
I wrote about emerging threats to sharks for Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep... -Quotes @britfinucci.bsky.social
Deepwater Sharks Are Threatened by Demand for Liver Oil
One in seven species of deepwater sharks and rays is threatened with extinction because of the liver oil and meat trade and emerging fishing technologies that make it possible to catch deep-sea fishes
scientificamerican.com
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
Global assessment of manta and devil ray gill plate and meat trade: conservation implications and opportunities - Environmental Biology of Fishes
Due to overexploitation in fisheries partly driven by international trade demand, mobulid rays are among the most threatened of elasmobranch families. We conducted a global assessment of the state of ...
link.springer.com
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
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...
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.
Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand.
New species of ghost shark discovered by New Zealand scientists | CNN
Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New Zealand.
cnn.it
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...
Fished for their meat and liver oil, many remarkable deep-water sharks and rays now face extinction
Long lifespans and slow reproduction rates make deep-water sharks and rays as vulnerable to overexploitation as whales once were. We must place them under protection to avoid extinctions.
theconversation.com
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.
Brit Finucci@britfinucci.bsky.social · 2y ago#Bestshark made the cover of Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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...
"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...