8th May (Hall B) - Beyond the Net | Elasmobranch Reintroductions

🦈 This session focuses deeply on two critical pillars of modern elasmobranch conservation: bycatch mitigation and population rewilding. Presentations examine SMART drumline efficiency, machine learning and eDNA in fisheries monitoring, and the complex genetic, reproductive, and spatial tracking methodologies required to successfully reintroduce endangered sharks back into the wild. 💡 Timestamps & Topics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00:00 • 🛡️ Paolo Cappa | SMART drumlines reduce wildlife mortality in shark management programs 00:10:21 • 🎣 Carl Meyer | Hotspots and Hard Choices: Oceanic Whitetip Shark Bycatch in Hawaii’s Longline Fishery 00:20:36 • 🇲🇾 Liyana Izwin Khalid | Elasmobranch bycatch in Malaysian trawl fisheries: Insights from SharkCam electronic monitoring 00:30:10 • 📊 Nina Faure-Beaulieu | Shark and ray bycatch in MSC certified fisheries: Data gaps from a hake bottom-trawl fishery 00:39:34 • 🇬🇷 Martina Ciprian | Bycatch rates and post-release mortality of sharks and rays in Greek fisheries 00:49:30 • 🏝️ Chaerul Ahadi | Community-Based Monitoring of Fisheries Bycatch in the Derawan Islands MPA 01:00:10 • 🇦🇺 Emily E Taljaard | Assessing Bycatch Deterrents to Reduce Elasmobranch Bycatch in Northern Australian Gillnet Fisheries 01:09:14 • 📈 Gloria Mariño Briceño | Updating bycatch and mortality estimates of elasmobranchs in ICCAT fisheries 01:15:03 • 🌊 Leire Lopetegui-Eguren | Assessing vulnerability status and conservation measures for Atlantic silky sharks 01:20:10 • 🇪🇸 Paola Gabasa | Spatiotemporal drivers of pelagic shark bycatch: Insights from the Spanish longline fishery 01:24:51 • 🇺🇸 Chloé Blandino | A Multidecadal Analysis of Silky Shark Bycatch on Hawaii Longlines 01:29:36 • 💻 Shownath | Applying Machine Learning to Fisheries Survey Data: Unveiling Mobulid Population Trends in Sri Lanka 01:34:37 • 🇨🇲 GUIADEM TEGUIA Rode Elcy | Investigating Fishing Practices and Bycatch on Sharks and Rays along the Cameroon Coastline 01:39:22 • 🧬 Charlotte Nuyt | Use of Environmental DNA (eDNA) to Improve Bycatch Monitoring in the Northeast Atlantic 01:44:40 • 🇹🇭 Metavee Chuangcharoendee | Scaling Shark Rewilding: Rebuilding Thailand’s leopard shark population 01:55:38 • 🗺️ Riley Pollom | Shark Ray 360: An International Collective Effort to Recover the Bowmouth Guitarfish 02:06:17 • 🤝 Side Event | Volunteerism as a catalyst towards Marine Conservation 03:07:39 • 🇿🇦 Kevin Spiby | Insights into the Movements of Previously Captive Ragged-tooth Sharks along Southern Africa 03:18:13 • 🧬 Christine L Dudgeon | Genetic considerations for rewilding: The StAR project as a case study 03:27:51 • 📡 Steven T. Kessel | The role of spatial ecology research as a critical component of elasmobranch reintroduction programs 03:38:09 • 🩹 Made Jaya Ratha | Is Internal Tagging Invasive? Wound healing and behavior in juvenile Indo-Pacific leopard sharks 03:48:23 • 🥚 Hugo Lassauce | Loyal mothers and multiple fathers: Reproductive Strategies of the Endangered Indo-Pacific Leopard Shark 03:58:42 • 🧬 Siobhan Houlihan | Cracking the Code of Leopard Shark Reproduction for Rewilding ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━