Irish Elasmobranch Group

SUCH a #eggtastic way to spend Easter Monday..Hunting for elasmo-egg cases 🦈🐣with so many amazing enthusiastic people braving wind and showers to help us!✨️🐣💕 Such HUGE thank you to all the team at @mahareesmatters 🩵🌊 @SharkTrustUK #elasmoeducation #eggthusiastic!

The @IUCNShark is trying to identify 'Important Shark & Ray Areas' (ISRA's) in Irish waters... Can you help? 🦈 You can submit sightings of sharks, skates, rays or live in-situ egg cases to @BioDataCentre 👉 tinyurl.com/SharkSightings More at @IrishElasmos #FairSeas

The weather didn’t stop @mahareesmatters’ #CitizenScientists from an Easter Egg Case Hunt with Louise Overy of @IrishElasmos 🌊🌧️. They found various egg cases from shark and skate species, including Undulate and Cuckoo Rays! 🦈🐟 #CleanCoasts #CitizenScience #Biodiversity

📢Calling all ecologists, biologists, oceanographers, social sciences, economists etc. with knowledge relevant to the Oceanic Northeast Atlantic #ABNJ Join ICES Workshop on the Oceanic Northeast Atlantic Ecosystem Overview #WKONEA 📅10-14 February 2025 ℹ ices.dk/community/grou…

🗣️Our response to the #Elasmobranch Conservation Strategy Consultations are now out! Happy to have contributed to shaping urgently needed actions for sharks, skates and rays for the future. Even managed to get some #WishFish in there too! Elasmobranchs - tinyurl.com/47a6jn2d

Huge news of two Angelsharks now tagged out of Tralee bay!! 🌊🦈🌊🦈✨️ Huge well done to the @MarineInst and their inshore team of Ollie, Ross and Sara for their continued work in the area! #angelshark #Satellitetagging @angelshark2014 irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…

For anyone in the Cork area this talk will most certainly be worthwhile heading too!

Wow a new Hammerhead species just dropped

It's that time of year when we start thinking ahead to #FSBI2025, which we're super excited to announce will be hosted by @QUBelfast! It will also be the first ever joint symposium with our friends at @IFMFish! Be sure to put 7-11 July in your diary, as it's not to be missed 🐟

Amazing work going on by the @UCC Cetus team! Lots of work going into helping unravel the secret life of the Flapper skate! If you are on a beach keep an eye out 👀 in case you spot one of the released tags! 🌊⛸️ @DaniOrrell @damien_haberlin

It's been a busy summer...! Two days searching at sea, and two days hiking the coastline later...Another flapper skate satellite tag recovered with @damien_haberlin 🏆 This data will help us unravel the movements of the largest skate in the world!

How Microplastics Are Affecting Catsharks In The Mediterranean buff.ly/3XgvaqJ

Huge well done and thank you needed to the Morrison family! And great work ongoing by the CETUS @UCC team! 🦈⛸️🌊

👋A public consultation to review our wildlife legislation is live. 🌱Your views will help to ensure that our legislation protects our wildlife and biodiversity, and works better for all of us. ⌛️Have your say before it closes on September 13th! tinyurl.com/5fnft3fe

Endangered skates saved from extinction by hatching in captivity | New Scientist buff.ly/3yJBvl8

This was such a fun chat about hot fish! Please listen in the link below 😁 🔥 🐟 thanks for having me @saveourseas!

Had a fantastic time leading a Mermaids Purse Scavenger for the Courtmacsherry Harbour Festival 🦈🛼 Lots of future marine biologists recruited☑️ @uccBEES @MaREIcentre

Diver has close encounter with rare megamouth shark buff.ly/3Yh9fkf

Job opportunity to join our Team @aMER_MarineRes at @PlymUni . We are looking for someone to support our Fish, Elasmobranch and crustacean tagging research, and our underwater video (ROV,BRUV,Pelagicam,Towed) #MPA monitoring work. hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru…