Apex Predator Publications and Reports – White Shark

Cailliet, GM, LJ Natanson, BA Welden, and DA Ebert. 1985. Preliminary studies on the age and growth of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, using vertebral bands. Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 9:49-60.

Casey, JG and JM Hoenig. 1977. Apex predators in deepwater dumpsite 106. Pages 309-376 in: NOAA Dumpsite Evaluation Report 77-1, Baseline Report of environmental conditions in Deepwater Dumpsite 106. Washington, DC.

Casey, JG and HL Pratt, Jr. 1985. Distribution of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in the western North Atlantic. Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 9:2-14.

Curtis, TH, CT McCandless, JK Carlson, GB Skomal, LJ Natanson, NE Kohler, GH Burgess, JJ Hoey and HL Pratt, Jr.2014. Seasonal distribution and historic trends in abundance of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Plos One 

Estrada, JA, AN Rice, LJ Natanson, and GB Skomal. 2006. Use of isotopic analysis of vertebrae in reconstructing ontogenetic feeding ecology in white sharks. Ecology 87(4):829-834.

Hamady LL, LJ Natanson, GB Skomal, and S Thorrold. 2014. Bomb carbon age validation of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Plos One 9(1):e84006.

Kohler, NE, JG Casey, and PA Turner. 1996. An analysis of length-length and length-weight relationships for 13 species of sharks from the western North Atlantic. NOAA Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NE-110. 22 pp. 

Kohler, NE, JG Casey and PA Turner. 1995. Length-weight relationships for 13 species of sharks from the western North Atlantic. Fishery Bulletin 93:412-418.

Kohler, NE, JG Casey, and PA Turner. 1998. NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program, 1962-93: An atlas of shark tag and recapture data. Marine Fisheries Review 60(2), 87 pp.

Kohler, NE and PA Turner. 2019. Distributions and movements of Atlantic shark species: A 52-year retrospective atlas of mark and recapture data. Marine Fisheries Review 81(2), 93 pp.

McCandless, CT, NE Kohler, and HL Pratt, Jr., editors. 2007. Shark nursery grounds of the Gulf of Mexico and the east coast waters of the United States.  American Fisheries Society, Symposium 50, Bethesda, Maryland, 390 pp. 

Natanson, LJ. 2005. Catch rate information obtained from the NMFS Northeast Longline Survey. SEDAR11-DW33. SEDAR, North Charleston, SC. 9 pp.

Natanson, LJ. 2002. Preliminary investigations into the age and growth of the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, white shark,  Carcharodon carcharias, and thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, in the western North Atlantic Ocean. ICCAT Collective Volume of Scientific Papers 54(4):1280-1293.

Natanson, LJ and GB Skomal. 2015. Validated age and growth of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Marine and Freshwater Research  66(5):387-398.

O’Leary, SJ, KA Feldheim, AT Fields, LJ Natanson, S Wintner, N Hussey, MS Shivji, and DD Chapman. 2015. Genetic diversity of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, in the Northwest Atlantic and Southern Africa. Journal of Heredity 106(3):258-265.

Pratt, Jr., HL. 1996. Reproduction in the male white shark, Carcharodon carcharias. Pages 131-138 in: AP Klimley and DG Ainley (editors), Great white sharks, the biology of Carcharodon carcharias. Academic Press, San Diego.

Pratt, Jr., HL, JG Casey, and RB Conklin. 1982. Observations on large white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, off Long Island, New York. Fishery Bulletin 80(1):153-156.

Schulze-Haugen, M, T Corey, and NE Kohler. 2003. Guide to sharks, tunas, and billfishes of the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. RI Sea Grant/NMFS, 118 pp.

Schwartz, FJ, CT McCandless, and JJ Hoey. 2007. Trends in relative abundance for shark species caught during a UNC longline survey conducted between 1972 and 2005 in Onslow Bay, NC. SEDAR13-DW34. SEDAR, North Charleston, SC. 79 pp.