Publications

use of photo-identification and mark-recapture methodology to assess basking shark (cetorhinus maximus) populations.	following centuries of exploitation, basking sharks (cetorhinus maximus) are considered by iucn as endangered in the northeast atlantic, where they have now been substantially protected for over two decades. however, the present size of this population remains unknown. we investigated the use of photo-identification of individuals' dorsal fins, combined with mark-recapture methodology, to investigate the size of populations of basking shark within the west coast of scotland. from a total of 921 ...	2016	26930611
the first report of disease in a basking shark (cetorhinus maximus).	few diseases have been reported in any species of shark and none in the basking shark (cetorhinus maximus) despite the latter being the subject of targeted hunting for over two centuries. this is the first report to describe the clinical signs and gross and microscopical pathology in a diseased basking shark that was live-stranded on the east coast of scotland. pyogranulomatous meningoencephalitis was present together with multifocal, predominantly non-suppurative, myocarditis with myocyte necro ...	2010	20304412