Erin McCombs

TL;DR: The results reveal the profound impact that fishing has had on reef shark populations: no sharks on almost 20% of the surveyed reefs, and shark depletion was strongly related to socio-economic conditions such as the size and proximity of the nearest market, poor governance and the density of the human population.

TL;DR: An Amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

TL;DR: Shiffman et al. as discussed by the authors found that overfishing is driving resident reef sharks toward extinction, causing diversity deficits in reef elasmobranch (shark and ray) assemblages.