Length-Length and Length-Weight Relationships for 13 Shark Species from theWestern North Atlantic

摘要

The rapid expansion of sport and commercial fisheries for sharks in the westernNorth Atlantic has created the need to manage the stocks of several species of large sharks. In response to this need, a fishery management plan (FMP) for sharks within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone of the Atlantic Ocean (U.S. Department of Commerce 1992) was implemented in 1993. The 39 shark species included in the FMP are not managed on an individual species basis, but are