Even in the Remotest Reef System, Shark Numbers Have Precipitously Declined (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Even in the Remotest Reef System, Shark Numbers Have Precipitously Declined (1 of 6)

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Silvertip sharks. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 7, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by F. Ferretti at Stanford University in Pacific Grove, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Shark baselines and the conservation role of remote coral reef ecosystems."

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Dan Bayley

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