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Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators

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Tunas Regional Management Organizations - Do You See an Opportunity to Monitor Ocean Health?

There are 18 species of tunas, species and sharks globally distributed. We were able to include all the tunas into this reglist index because they have been assessed at tuna refemos for the fishes. While there are 10 species of fish, I think we were able to including six of them into the red list index. And for sharks, this was very challenging, because while there are 13 species of oceanic sharks, we were only able to include four or five species of sharks into thered list index. So that shows how, while tuna refemo are increasingly monitoring and assessing shark species, they still need to be doing a better job to assess species in a larger scale.

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