SHOGUN 2025
Led by Prof. Barbara Block, the bluefin tuna team at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station - joined by legendary postdocs, long-time technicians, and 30 passionate fishing enthusiasts, headed offshore from San Diego past the Channel Islands. Using rod and reel, we caught, tagged, and released bluefin tuna with archival and MiniPAT tags, continuing a 30-year effort to track their epic migrations to Japan and back...
FISHIN' FRENZY 2025
We set off from Cape Hatteras aboard 'Fishin' Frenzy,' hosted by veteran anglers featured on 'Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks.' We tagged Atlantic bluefin tuna with MiniPAT tags, advancing vital research into their migrations from the Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean spawning grounds to foraging habitats in the North Atlantic Ocean...
July 2025
Fatal shark incident in the eastern Mediterranean Sea highlights urgent need for enhanced management measures
Ocean & Coastal Management
We report the first documented fatal interaction worldwide involving dusky and possibly sandbar sharks at an aggregation near the Orot-Rabin power and desalination station in Hadera, Israel. The incident underscores the urgent need for science-based management to mitigate risks tied to unregulated human–shark proximity in confined coastal habitats.
© 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You may share this work with attribution and without modification for non-commercial purposes.
E. Bigal et al. (2025)
June 2025
Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Along the Coast of Israel: Abundance and Social Structure
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
We examined the abundance and social structure of bottlenose dolphins along the Israeli coast, combining long-term photo-identification data with rigorous analysis of group dynamics and population size. The findings highlight key conservation needs for this protected marine mammal in the eastern Mediterranean.
© 2025 The Authors. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You may share this work with attribution and without modification for non-commercial purposes.
Y. Mevorach et al. (2025)
