eprintid: 5146
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type: monograph
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creators_name: Leigh, G.M.
corp_creators: Animal Science
title: Stock assessment of whaler and hammerhead sharks (Carcharhinidae and Sphyrnidae) in Queensland
ispublished: pub
subjects: SH327.5
subjects: SH328
subjects: SH332
subjects: SH346
abstract: This stock assessment provides detailed results for the most common sharks encountered by Queensland commercial fishers. These sharks come from the whaler (Carcharhinidae) and hammerhead (Sphyrnidae) families and comprise sharpnose sharks (Rhizoprionodon taylori and R. oligolinx), the milk shark (R. acutus), the creek whaler (Carcharhinus fitzroyensis), the hardnose shark (C. macloti), the spot-tail shark (C. sorrah), the Australian blacktip shark (C.
tilstoni), the common blacktip shark (C. limbatus), the spinner shark (C. brevipinna), bull and pigeye sharks (C. leucas and C. amboinensis), the winghead shark (Eusphyra blochii), the scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) and the great hammerhead (S. mokarran). Reef sharks were excluded because fishery observer data indicated that they were largely spatially segregated from sharks caught in the inshore net fisheries. The three common species of reef sharks in Queensland, which are all whaler sharks, are the grey reef shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, the blacktip reef shark C. melanopterus and the whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus.
date: 2015
date_type: published
publisher: Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
business_group: Animal Science
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: technical_report
pagerange: 115 p.
pages: 136
department: Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
refereed: TRUE
citation:    Leigh, G.M.  (2015) Stock assessment of whaler and hammerhead sharks (Carcharhinidae and Sphyrnidae) in Queensland. <http://era.daf.qld.gov.au/id/eprint/5146/>  Technical Report. Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.      
document_url: http://era.daf.qld.gov.au/id/eprint/5146/1/Stock%20assessment%20of%20whaler%20and%20hammerhead%20sharks%20%28Carcharhinidae%20and%20Sphyrnidae%29%20in%20Queensland.pdf