Assessing the precarious conservation status of the spiny dogfish
Species: Spiny Dogfish. Location: Loch Sunart, UK. 2009. During my research into the shark immune system, I became particularly interested in the conservation status of one of our focal species; the spiny dogfish, also known as Spurdog (Squalus acanthias). Due to population segregation and aggregation, stocks are assessed as subpopulations. The Northeast Atlantic sub-population that […]