eShark: The Global Shark & Ray project
eOceans began with sharks, rays, and the divers who love them—but the mission quickly grew. Sharks and rays connect entire ecosystems, crossing borders, species, and industries. Together, we’ve driven real change, but threats continue to evolve. That’s why this project remains active in the eOceans app, running at both global and national scales, with partners and anyone else who wants to ensure sharks, rays, and the oceans they depend on have a future.
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eShark is the flagship project of eOceans Science, built on the power of capacity sharing. By harnessing millions of observations and insights from divers, snorkelers, and local experts worldwide, eShark has posed and answered critical questions that have shaped policies to protect sharks.
eShark enabled groundbreaking research, such as:
Evaluating global shark sanctuaries and their effectiveness.
Estimating the number of sharks killed annually—”100 million sharks killed per year”.
Recover potential and conservation options for elasmobranchs.
Emergent research and priorities for shark and ray conservation
Recovery potential and conservation options for elasmobranchs
Characterizing and predicting essential habitat features for juvenile coastal sharks
Through these efforts, eShark has provided crucial data and insights to inform better conservation strategies and policies worldwide.
These shark projects, crucially, enabled us to test and iterate how to build and scale —
across species, threats, social values, policies, ecosystems, locations, and organizational needs.
Producing high quality data —
with our in-app field guide, recents list, ID Please help, more…
When you log sharks, and any other species, threats, social values —
eOceans shares it to all your relevant projects, updates displays of results, and disseminates the story to your stakeholders in real-time.
Get involved!
Join our global community and contribute to the ongoing effort to safeguard marine life. Together, we can make a real impact—one observation at a time.
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