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ArticleBiology2022

Quantifying Catch Rates, Shark Abundance and Depredation Rate at a Spearfishing Competition on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

Adam Smith, Al Songcuan, Jonathan Mitchell, Max Haste, Zachary Schmidt, Glenn Sands, Marcus Lincoln Smith

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Article in Biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Adam SmithReef Ecologic, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4863-485X
Al SongcuanReef Ecologic, Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia.
Jonathan MitchellDepartment of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland Government, Dutton Park, QLD 4102, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-1990-1381
Max HasteTownsville Skindiving Club, South Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia.
Zachary SchmidtTownsville Skindiving Club, South Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia.
Glenn SandsTownsville Skindiving Club, South Townsville, QLD 4810, Australia.
Marcus Lincoln SmithDepartment of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, NSW 2019, Australia.
Townsville Hospital · AUReef Ecologic · AUDepartment of Primary Industries · AUMacquarie University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We developed and applied a method to quantify spearfisher effort and catch, shark interactions and shark depredation in a boat-based recreational spearfishing competition in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Queensland. Survey questions were designed to collect targeted quantitative data whilst minimising the survey burden of spearfishers. We provide the first known scientific study of shark depredation during a recreational spearfishing competition and the first scientific study of shark depredation in the Great Barrier Reef region. During the two-day spearfishing competition, nine vessels with a total of 33 spearfishers reported a catch of 144 fish for 115 h of effort (1.25 fish per hour). A subset of the catch comprised nine eligible species under competition rules, of which 47 pelagic fish were weighed. The largest fish captured was a 34.4 kg Sailfish (

Indexed as

depredationfishpelagicsharkspearfishingsustainability citizen science

Identifiers

PMID36290426
PMCPMC9598298
OpenAlexW4306737920

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