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Shark Fishing
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To study the relationships between the material properties of cartilage and the biochemistry we have to obtain fresh material from a variety of species of cartilaginous fishes. This has led us to visit artisanal fishing camps, and has sparked an interest in the effects that this type of fishing has on shark population biology, local abundances, and the socio-economic impact of the fishery. On a recent trip to El Barrill, in Baja California Norte, Mexico, Steve Kajiura and I took photographs of the fishing and processing activities. This aspect of the research is a collaborative effort with Jose Castro (Mote Marine Lab, NMFS) and Fernando Marquez Farias (Instituto Nacional de Pesca, Mexico). We made short movie of the process of processing the sharks into dried fillets. Movie
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 Finned and gutted shark carcasses, ready for filleting |
 Shark fins drying |
 Fisherman with white shark jaws caught just before we arrived |
 Processing sharks into fillets |
 Thresher shark embryos. Many of the females caught at this camp were pregnant. |
 Smooth hammerheads were a common species at this camp |
 Jose Castro and Neal Overstrom laying out the reproductive tract of a thresher for photographing. |
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