Ignasi Nuez, Dr.
@ignasinr14.bsky.social
Shark scientist. Looking into the biological & ecological traits of sharks and their interactions with fisheries. Strong focus on bluntnose sixgill sharks in the Mediterranean Sea. At @ub.edu @marinemegafauna.bsky.social
From sixgills to baskings! Our new #maximus_SHARK project is up and running, and we're visiting the Catalan fishing guilds to start a new collaboration with their fishermen. Together, we'll try to broaden the ecological knowledge of this species in the NW Mediterranean. @manelgazo.bsky.social
New maps reveal the scale of #saiga migrations across #Kazakhstan and the threats they face. They highlight key migration routes and show how roads, railways and infrastructure can fragment habitat and disrupt movements. Explore the interactive maps & fact sheets: cami.cms.int/news/new-map...
Killer whales and dolphins have been recorded working together to hunt salmon :) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds
Northern resident killer whales appear to use dolphins as ‘scouts’, in a surprising cooperative hunting strategy
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Just an hour ago at the CITES #CoP20 all Mantas and Devil Rays (Mobulidae spp.) were accepted by consensus to uplist from Appendix II to Appendix I! Follow along for more updates live. #CITESCoP20 #mobulids #manta #devilrays #shark #ray #chimaera #biodiversity #conservation #trade #conference
Historic victory for sharks: #CITESCoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES. “Today’s decision is a watershed moment for all sharks and rays,” said WCS’s Luke Warwick. 🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4olha9w
Historic Victory for Sharks as Oceanic Whitetips Upgraded to Appendix I at CITES Banning International Trade
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 27, 2025 – CITES CoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES. The vote marks a major victory for one...
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Our new research paper is out. We found microplastic ingestion by the blackmouth catshark (Galeus melastomus) in the canyoned continental margins of the Gulf of Lion was high, more than in other parts of the Mediterranean and was influenced by the role of those canyoned margins. Full thread 👇🏻🦈
Manel Gazo@manelgazo.bsky.social · last yr.📊 Over 80% of the specimens had ingested microplastics — mostly PET and cellophane fibres, the kind found in countless everyday products. Even more than in sharks from other Mediterranean areas like the Tyrrhenian, Ligurian or Balearic seas. Why?
Cutting teeth probably let smaller sharks get higher in the food web than those with grasping teeth. Awesome stable isotope study led by fabulous PhD graduate Sabrina Riveron! @griffith.edu.au onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Shearing Tooth Morphology May Allow Sharks to Access Higher Trophic Levels at Smaller Sizes
Predator morphology imposes limitations on prey selection due to biomechanical constraints, making some prey functionally inaccessible and thereby constraining predator trophic niches. We assessed ho....
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We’ve recently finished our #Bocadolça project, the main aim of which was to determine presence and seasonality of the bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) in the deep waters off Catalonia (NW Mediterranean). @manelgazo.bsky.social (1/3)
Yesterday, an unfortunate 7m-long basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) was caught by trammel nets in Port de la Selva (NE Spain), close to shore. Sightings of this species start to be more frequent along the Catalan Coast at this time of the year, likely driven by ++[phytoplankton] in the region.
New study shows that #SouthernOcean #warming plays a greater role than #Arctic Ocean warming in shifting tropical #rainfall in a future climate, increasing rainfall in #Brazil and enhancing #drought risk in the #Sahel. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The greater role of Southern Ocean warming compared to Arctic Ocean warming in shifting future tropical rainfall patterns - Nature Communications
This study uses climate models and shows that Southern Ocean warming plays a greater role than Arctic Ocean warming in shifting tropical rainfall in a future climate, increasing rainfall in Brazil and...
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Cognitive perception of circulating oxygen in seals is the reason they don’t drown 🦑🌎🧪🦭 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cognitive perception of circulating oxygen in seals is the reason they don’t drown
Marine mammals rely on maintaining sufficient blood oxygen levels while diving to prevent drowning. Generally, oxygen is cognitively imperceptible to mammals that instead sense rising carbon dioxide a...
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Important paper shows white shark reproductive population in eastern Australia might be as few as 500 adults... challenges the idea that shark populations are "exploding" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Genomic Assessment of Australian White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) Challenges Previous Evidence of Population Subdivision
Aim The white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is one of the world's largest and most recognisable marine predators but has suffered significant declines since the mid-twentieth century. Conservation ...
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New research by Colloca et al. found that the average contribution of elasmobranchs to the total annual landings of EU fisheries operating in the Mediterranean Sea from 2013 to 2022 was, in economic value... 0.60%. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Assessing the relevance of sharks and rays for Mediterranean EU fisheries to support a transition from species exploitation to species conservation - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Ten years (2013–2022) of official data on elasmobranchs landed and discarded by European fishing fleets operating in the Mediterranean Sea were analysed with the primary objective of assessing the sig...
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To set up a protocol for the release of accidentally captured bluntnose sixgill sharks 🦈…. the key is to listen and learn from the experts. A huge thank you for your time and knowledge, skippers! Projecte #Bocadolça @marinemegafauna.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @ub.edu @ignasinr14.bsky.social
The wave of rising shark & ray extinction risk #GlobalSharkTrends 👉 started in rivers, estuaries, nearshore coastal waters 👉 before rapidly expanding out across the oceans. Lower risk only in harder-to-fish nearshore habitats, ie, 👉 Kelp/algal reefs 👉 Rocky reefs, & 👉 Deepsea 🧵10/20
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...
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New research found white sharks reduced a lot their interactions with counterilluminated seal decoys vs control decoys. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Counterillumination reduces bites by Great White sharks
In the open ocean, achieving camouflage is complicated by the fact that the downwelling light is generally much brighter than the upwelling light, whi…
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Japan and China once again blocking consensus. www.sharkleague.org/2024/11/18/u...
Unprecedented International Effort to Prevent Shark Finning Blocked by Japan & China - Shark League for the Atlantic and Mediterranean
ICCAT meeting ends in dramatic defeat of proposal to end at-sea fin removal while other shark safeguards advance Limassol, Cyprus. November 18, 2024. This year’s meeting of the International Commissio...
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A few interesting papers out lately on human-shark interactions: Reducing fisher-shark conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1... Counterillumination reduces bites www.cell.com/current-biol... Do individual sharks bite humans more than once? conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #shark
Hello there, folks. Looks like Bluesky is here to get us all back on the right track. Well then, I’m up for that too. I’ll be mostly posting about shark research and conservation and, quite frequently, about these guys (Hexanchus griseus) in the Mediterranean. See you around!
