Atlantic Sharpnose Shark - NOAA Fisheries
Ongoing research priorities for Atlantic sharpnose sharks include enhancing life history information, identifying additional bycatch minimization strategies, and improving the identification of essential fish habitat.
Smalltooth Sawfish - NOAA Fisheries
Feb 27, 2025 · The smalltooth sawfish belongs to a group of fish called elasmobranchs that includes rays, skates, and sharks. Although shark-like in appearance, they are actually rays. Learn more about smalltooth sawfish.
12 Shark Facts That May Surprise You | NOAA Fisheries
Jul 17, 2018 · Sharks use their gills to filter oxygen from the water. They are a special type of fish known as "elasmobranchs", which translates into fish made of cartilaginous tissues— the clear gristly stuff that your ears and nose tip are made of. This category also includes rays, sawfish, and …
Blacknose Shark - NOAA Fisheries
Mar 12, 2025 · Blacknose sharks are quick-swimming predators that primarily feed on small, bony fish. They are known to form schools and sometimes associate with schooling mullet or anchovies.
SCUTES Student Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Sturgeon have five rows of bony scutes along the length of their body. Scutes are a modified ganoid scale. Ganoid scales are diamond shaped and found on primitive bony fish like sturgeon. They can help serve as protection for the fish like armor, …
Atlantic Sharks Recreational Minimum Sizes and Bag Limits
Jul 1, 2020 · Vessels must have a valid HMS Angling or HMS Charterboat/Headboat permit to fish for Atlantic sharks. The permit covers everyone fishing on that vessel. Tournament vessels may instead fish for sharks with an Atlantic Tunas General …
Nov 7, 2020 · cleaning fish in California. Certain aspects of its cleaning relate to the fact that only a few of the many seiioritas present at a given time will clean, and that this activity is not centered around well-defined cleaning stations, as has been reported for certain cleaning fishes elsewhere. Probably because cleaners
Shark Identification for Cooperative Shark Tagging Program (A-B)
The Cooperative Shark Tagging Program is a collaborative effort between recreational anglers, the commercial fishing industry, and NOAA Fisheries to study the life history of Atlantic sharks. Sharks A - B
Apex Predator Publications and Reports - NOAA Fisheries
Jun 2, 2020 · Hoey, JJ, A Aires-da-Silva, PA Turner, T Syc, and NE Kohler. 2005.A review of exploratory longline surveys and biological sampling of sharks from the Sandy Hook, NJ and Narragansett, RI labs: 1961-1991.
Atlantic Swordfish and Billfish Identification Guide
Nov 28, 2017 · Provides guidance on how to identify species of Atlantic swordfish and billfishes.