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• High bycatch rates of manta and devil rays in the "small-scale" artisanal fisheries of Sri Lanka.

  Authors:Daniel Fernando and Joshua D. StewartFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 8, 202114,342 words Article 1610LBackground Expanding fisheries in developing nations like Sri Lanka have a significant impact on threatened marine species such as elasmobranchs. Manta and devil (mobulid) rays have some of the most conservative life...

• Important juvenile manta ray habitat at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico

  Authors:Joshua D. Stewart, Marissa Nuttall, Emma L. Hickerson, and Michelle A. JohnstonFrom:Marine Biology (Vol. 165, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  June 15, 20185,456 words Report 1570LOceanic manta rays (Mobula birostris) are large pelagic planktivores that are threatened globally by targeted fisheries and bycatch. While studies of oceanic mantas have increased substantially in the past decade, major...

• Correction to: Important juvenile manta ray habitat at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico

  Authors:Joshua D. Stewart, Marissa Nuttall, Emma L. Hickerson, and Michelle A. JohnstonFrom:Marine Biology (Vol. 165, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 30, 20181,152 words Correction notice 1460LIn a recent paper (Stewart et al. 2018), we reported on the presence of juvenile manta rays in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) and suggested that the region serves as a nursery habitat for the...

• Environmental characteristics associated with the presence of the Spinetail devil ray (Mobula mobular) in the eastern tropical Pacific

  Authors:Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Martin A. Hall, Maria Grazia Pennino, Joshua D. Stewart, Jon Lopez, and Hilario MuruaFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 7, 201912,235 words Report 1550LIn the eastern Pacific Ocean, the tropical tuna purse-seine fishery incidentally captures high numbers of five mobulid bycatch species; all of which are classified as mortalities by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna...