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Alec BM Moore
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Lecturer in marine top predator conservation @sosbangor.bsky.social

I research: sharks & rays | marine historical ecology | fisheries | conservation 🏊🤿🎣🐟
Agree, but also see shotgun wadding which is exploding into the environment in quantity at this time of year
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
PhD on pied flycatchers
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Guinean landing surveys of Bentfin devil rays add insight into threatened elasmobranch catch
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A seasonal aggregation of juvenile scalloped hammerheads Sphyrna lewini along beaches of the Gold Coast, Australia
October 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Bite wounds on Tursiops aduncus provide the first inference of cookiecutter sharks (Isistius spp.) in the Red Sea
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New paper on potential impacts of deep sea mining on sharks, rays & chimaeras
October 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
September 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Unexpected prey: lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) observed preying on an alien invasive freshwater fish in a remote no-take marine reserve in the Equatorial Atlantic

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It's always nice to re-visit, and cite, great books that you've had on your shelf for years
August 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Rediscovery of one of the world's rarest sharks, the sailback houndshark Gogolia filewoodi, in Papua New Guinea
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Marine predator super-habitats: Channels used for foraging, resting, mating, and parturition in sharks

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
August 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Beautiful scientific illustration in a Government fisheries report, 1884

-Electric ray caught off Scotland
-Herring measurements

@projectfishistory.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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A blacktip's black tip: The reliability of using dorsal-fin patterns for photo identification of blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)
August 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Nice representation of how various factors degrade the quality of biodiversity data over time in this 2017 paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
August 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
FULLY FUNDED PhD opportunity on edible crab disease
with a great team here in a stunning location @sosbangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @cefasgovuk.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
July 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🦈Shark Awareness Day🦈

Some of the most valuable 'shark fins' are actually from rays (shark-like rays) which are Critically Endangered

And still being trade internationally despite regulation

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
July 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Impressive new atlas resource for students & researchers of marine turtles 🐢
July 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
July 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🦈 in the news, 1937

I've re-read this several times and still don't quite understand
July 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A quarter of a century ago, my first publication came out

Mystified why it has only been cited 6 times (once by me)..🤣
July 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Interesting paper on non-lethal stomach sampling of sharks & rays
July 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
New maskray species from Fiji

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
July 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Sustainable seafood guide🐟 🦑🦞🐚: 1883 edition

"Crack on - herring🐟 stocks cannot be impacted by human activity"

(They collapsed in the ~mid 20th century)

Thankfully, we now have robust science-based management @icesmarine.bsky.social

@projectfishistory.bsky.social @oceanspast.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Really enjoyed recent Swimrun event on the beautiful Gower coast, S Wales 🏃🏊🏃🏊🏃🏊🏃
July 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM