An anecdotal observation of an amputee sawfish recapture and development of safe release guide for Papua New Guinea gillnet fisheries

Michael I. Grant; Yolarnie Amepou; Andrew Chin; Sarah J. Hill; Dana Maggacis; Madeline Green

doi:10.1071/PC22048

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An anecdotal observation of an amputee sawfish recapture and development of safe release guide for Papua New Guinea gillnet fisheries

Michael I. Grant

^A ^B ^* , Yolarnie Amepou ^B , Andrew Chin

^A , Sarah J. Hill ^C , Dana Maggacis ^C and Madeline Green ^D ^E

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^A Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4814, Australia.

^B Piku Biodiversity Network, Waigani Drive, Ensisi Valley, Port Moresby, National Capital District 121, Papua New Guinea.

^C Chunky Duck, 11 Kimberly Way, Happy Valley, SA 5159, Australia.

^D Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. 7004, Australia.

^E CSIRO Environment, Castray Esplanade, Hobart, Tas. 7004, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: Michael.grant4@jcu.edu.au

Handling Editor: Mike Calver

Pacific Conservation Biology 30, PC22048 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC22048

Submitted: 7 December 2022 Accepted: 3 April 2023 Published: 27 April 2023

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Keywords: conservation action, conservation initiative, fish maw, gillnet, Pristidae, rostrum, small-scale fisheries, threatened species interactions.

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