Grants
Sea Stewards Research is Grant and Donor Driven. Thanks to the following institutions for their support:
Grantors Include:
The California Academy of Sciences
The Monterey Bay Aquarium
The Threshold Foundation
The Rose Foundation
Sea Stewards is now partnering with local fishermen of Team Fishfinders and the California Academy of Sciences in a long term San Francisco Bay shark study. Continuing with tagging work started with the San Francisco Aquarium of the Bay, our team is marking and recapturing sevengill sharks (Notorhynchus cepediana) in the San Francisco Bay to determine growth and population demographic
In a new study, we are studying Leopard Sharks (Triakis semifaciatus) in five locations of the bay to determine demographics, growth, site fidelity and population genetics.
We are also partnering with UCLA in a Brown Smoothound (Mustelus henlei) study comparing sharks in the Bay and
Thanks to the San Francisco Aquarium of the Bay Foundation for their initial funding of the Seven Gill study with U.C Davis researcher Dr. Michele Buckhorn.
Thanks to local Fishermen Steve Shirley and Dave Frankel of Team Fishfinders for donating their time, vessel use and expertise to continue the study in 2008 and 2009.
Our 2010 research has been supported by volunteers and with a small grant by Dr. John McCosker of the California Academy of Sciences. The eventual goals of the Shark Program is to study the population size and relationships of all elasmobranchs in the San Francisco Bay.
