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Appendix B
Organizations That Promote the Study
and Conservation of Sharks
American Elasmobranch Society. Focuses on biology and conservation of
sharks, skates, and rays. See http://www.elasmo.org.
American Fisheries Society. Publisher of Transactions of the American Fisher-
ies Society, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, North Ameri-
can Journal of Aquaculture, Journal of Aquatic Animal Health, and the news-
letter Fisheries. Their website is fisheries.org.
American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists. Publishes the newsletter
Briefs. See http://www.aifrb.org.
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Publisher of the
journal Copeia. The website is asih.org.
Canadian Shark Research Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography,
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Provides information about shark bi-
ology and fisheries on its website, http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/shark.
Defenders of Wildlife. Maintains a website that contains information about
sharks and works to disseminate information about finning. See www
.defenders.org/sharks/sharks and http://www.defenders.org/sharks/defenders
-action-stop-shark-finning.
European Elasmobranch Association (EEA). Nonprofit organization that
coordinates the activities of European organizations dedicated to the
study, management, or conservation of sharks, skates, rays, and chimae-
ras (www.eulasmo.org).
European Ichthyological Society. Sponsor of the European Congresses of
Ichthyology.
Fishery Society of the British Isles (www.fsbi.org.uk). Publisher of the
Journal of Fish Biology.
Fundación Colombiana para la investigación y conservación de tiburones y
rayas (www.squalus.org). Colombian-based scientific organization that
promotes the study and conservation of sharks and rays.
Ichthyological Society of Japan. Publisher of two journals, one in English,
Ichthyological Research, and one in Japanese, Japanese Journal of Ichthyology.
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Publishes
the Red List of Threatened Species (www.redlist.org) with periodic up-
dates on the global conservation status of species.
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