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Shark species composition and catch variability in Guatemala’s artisanal Pacific fishery: A call for spatial and temporal management

Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Regional Studies in Marine Science journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/rsma Shark species composition and catch variability in Guatemala’s artisanal Pacific fishery: A call for spatial and temporal management Maria de Belen Chacón-Paz a , Julio Sánche…
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Combining monitoring approaches to reveal deep‑water chondrichthyans diversity in the Caribbean waters of Guatemala

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-026-01657-x Combining monitoring approaches to reveal deep‑water chondrichthyans diversity in the Caribbean waters of Guatemala Ana Cristina Hérnandez‑Solis 1 · Julio Sánchez‑Jiménez 1 · Elisa M. Areano‑Barillas 1 · Juan Carlos Pérez‑Jiménez 1,2 Received : 26 July 202…
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Richness and abundance of reef fish in the Caribbean of Guatemala using Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations

Richness and abundance of reef fish in the Caribbean of Guatemala using Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations *Francisco Polanco-Vásquez 1, 2 , Alerick Pacay 2 , José R. Ortíz-Aldana 1 , Ana Hacohen-Domené2, Cristopher Avalos-Castillo 2 1 Instituto de Investigaciones Hidrobiológicas, Centro de Es…
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First reports of smalltooth sand tiger sharks (odontaspis ferox), off the Continental Ecuador

First reports of smalltooth sand tiger sharks, Odontaspis ferox (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes: Odontaspididae), off the continental Ecuador Colombo ESTUPIÑÁN-MONTAÑO 1 , Felipe GALVÁN-MAGAÑA 2 *, Ana HACOHEN-DOMENÉ 3 , and Jose F. ESTUPIÑÁN-ORTÍZ 1 1 Fundación Alium Pacific, Santiago de Cali, Colomb…
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Nursery areas for a critically endangered hammerhead shark in the Guatemalan Pacific

Nursery areas for a critically endangered hammerhead shark in the Guatemalan Pacific Julio Sánchez-Jiménez 1 | María de los Rosales-Melgar 1 | Elisa Areano 1 | Ana C. Hernández 1 | Omar Santana-Morales 1 | Juan C. Pérez-Jiménez 1,2 1 Fundación Mundo Azul, Guatemala, Guatemala 2 El Colegio de la Fro…
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Elasmobranch bycatch of the shrimp trawl fishery along the Pacific coast of Guatemala

Elasmobranch bycatch of the shrimp trawl fishery along the Pacific coast of Guatemala Julio Sánchez (contact author) 1 | Omar Santana Morales 1,2 | Rebeca Zertuche 2 | Elisa Areano 1 Email address for contact author: jfsanchez89@gmail.com 1 Fundación Mundo Azul, Boulevard Rafael Landívar 10-05 Pase…
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First record of the bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) in the Guatemalan Caribbean Sea

First record of the bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) in the Guatemalan Caribbean Sea Julio Sánchez-Jiménez 1 , Omar Santana-Morales 1 , Josué Ayala-Donado 1 , María de los Rosales-Melgar 1 , Elisa M. Areano-Barillas 1 , Mónica González-Jaramillo 2 & Juan Carlos Pérez-Jim…
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First record of the kitefin shark, Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788) from the Guatemalan Caribbean Sea

First record of the kitefin shark, Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788) from the Guatemalan Caribbean Sea Julio Sánchez-Jiménez 1 , Josué Ayala-Donado 1 , María de los Ángeles Rosales Melgar 1 , Elisa M. Areano-Barillas 1 , Devanshi Kasana 2 , Mónica González-Jaramillo 3 & Juan Carlos Pérez-Jiménez 1,…
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New record and range extension of the roughskin spurdog Cirrhigaleus asper in the Caribbean Sea

New record and range extension of the roughskin spurdog Cirrhigaleus asper in the Caribbean Sea Francisco Polanco-Vásquez¹,², Ana Hacohen-Domené¹,³*, Edgar E. Becerril-García⁴, Sebastián Hernández⁵,⁶ ¹ Fundación Mundo Azul, Guatemala, Blvd. Rafael Landivar 10-05, Paseo Cayala Zona 16, Ciudad de Gua…
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First record of the scoophead shark (Sphyrna media) and new records of great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran) in the Guatemalan Pacific

First record of the scoophead shark (Sphyrna media) and new records of great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran) in the Guatemalan Pacific Ana Cristina Hérnandez a , Julio Sánchez-Jiménez a , María de los Angeles Rosales-Melgar a , Elisa M. Areano-Barillas a , Juan Carlos Pérez-Jiménez a,b, * a Fu…
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Extinction risk, reconstructed catches and management of chondrichthyan fishes in the Western Central Atlantic Ocean

Extinction risk, reconstructed catches and management of chondrichthyan fishes in the Western Central Atlantic Ocean Brendan S. Talwar, Brooke Anderson, Cristopher G. Avalos-Castillo, María del Pilar Blanco-Parra, Alejandra Briones, Diego Cardeñosa, John K. Carlson, Patricia Charvet, Charles F. Cot…
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Eastern Pacific Round Rays

Eastern Pacific Round Rays Jorge Manuel Morales-Saldaña, Katelyn B. Herman, Paola A. Mejía-Falla, Andrés F. Navia, Elisa Areano, Cristopher G. Avalos Castillo, Mario Espinoza, Ana Cevallos, Adriana González Pestana, Alejandra González, Juan Carlos Pérez-Jiménez, Ximena Velez-Zuazo, Patricia Charvet…
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Hunt for the Easter Sharks: A genetic analysis of shark and ray meat markets in Guatemala

Hunt for the Easter Sharks: A genetic analysis of shark and ray meat markets in Guatemala Devanshi Kasana, Hector Daniel Martinez, Julio Sánchez-Jiménez, Elisa Areano, Ana Hacohen-Domené, Rachel T. Graham, Demian D. Chapman Fisheries Research 283 (2025) 107300. Available online 16 February 2025. do…
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New records and morphometry of the Atlantic sixgill shark Hexanchus vitulus in the Caribbean coast of Guatemala

First records and measurements of ten Atlantic sixgill sharks captured by artisanal fishers in the Guatemalan Caribbean from 2015 to 2019.
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Description and characterization of the artisanal elasmobranch fishery on Guatemala’s Caribbean coast

Study of shark, ray and chimaera landings at El Quetzalito and Livingston from 2015 to 2017.
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Characterization of the artisanal elasmobranch fisheries off the Pacific coast of Guatemala

Monitoring of shark and ray landings at Las Lisas, Sipacate and Buena Vista from 2017 to 2020.
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First report of the whitesaddled catshark Scyliorhinus hesperius (Springer 1966) in Guatemala’s Caribbean Sea

First Guatemalan record of five mature male whitesaddled catsharks captured at 200 m depth.
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First record of Heptranchias perlo (Bonnaterre 1788) in Guatemala’s Caribbean Sea

First confirmed record of the sharpnose sevengill shark Heptranchias perlo in Guatemala's Caribbean Sea, based on two females captured near El Quetzalito at approximately 200 m depth.
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First record of the chimaera Neoharriotta carri (Bullis and Carpenter 1966) in the Caribbean of Guatemala

First Guatemalan records of a male and female chimaera captured off El Quetzalito.
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Elasmobranchs small-scale fishery in Guatemala: Socioeconomic aspects and value chain structure

Socioeconomic and value-chain analysis of small-scale shark and ray fisheries in Guatemala.
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Scientific publications

Shark species composition and catch variability in Guatemala’s artisanal Pacific fishery: A call for spatial and temporal management

Combining monitoring approaches to reveal deep‑water chondrichthyans diversity in the Caribbean waters of Guatemala

Richness and abundance of reef fish in the Caribbean of Guatemala using Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations

First reports of smalltooth sand tiger sharks (odontaspis ferox), off the Continental Ecuador

Nursery areas for a critically endangered hammerhead shark in the Guatemalan Pacific

Elasmobranch bycatch of the shrimp trawl fishery along the Pacific coast of Guatemala

First record of the bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) in the Guatemalan Caribbean Sea

First record of the kitefin shark, Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788) from the Guatemalan Caribbean Sea

New record and range extension of the roughskin spurdog Cirrhigaleus asper in the Caribbean Sea

First record of the scoophead shark (Sphyrna media) and new records of great hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna mokarran) in the Guatemalan Pacific

Extinction risk, reconstructed catches and management of chondrichthyan fishes in the Western Central Atlantic Ocean

Eastern Pacific Round Rays

Hunt for the Easter Sharks: A genetic analysis of shark and ray meat markets in Guatemala

New records and morphometry of the Atlantic sixgill shark Hexanchus vitulus in the Caribbean coast of Guatemala

Description and characterization of the artisanal elasmobranch fishery on Guatemala’s Caribbean coast

Characterization of the artisanal elasmobranch fisheries off the Pacific coast of Guatemala

First report of the whitesaddled catshark Scyliorhinus hesperius (Springer 1966) in Guatemala’s Caribbean Sea

First record of Heptranchias perlo (Bonnaterre 1788) in Guatemala’s Caribbean Sea

First record of the chimaera Neoharriotta carri (Bullis and Carpenter 1966) in the Caribbean of Guatemala

Elasmobranchs small-scale fishery in Guatemala: Socioeconomic aspects and value chain structure