Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

@article{Dulvy2021OverfishingDO,
  title={Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis},
  author={Nicholas K. Dulvy and Nathan Pacoureau and Cassandra L. Rigby and Riley A. Pollom and Rima W. Jabado and David A. Ebert and Brittany Finucci and Caroline M. Pollock and Jessica Cheok and Danielle H. Derrick and Katelyn B Herman and C Samantha Sherman and Wade J. VanderWright and Julia M Lawson and Rachel H.L. Walls and John K. Carlson and Patr{\'i}cia Charvet and Kinattumkara Bineesh and Daniel Fernando and Gina M. Ralph and Jay H. Matsushiba and Craig Hilton‐Taylor and Sonja V. Fordham and Colin A. Simpfendorfer},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2021},
  volume={31},
  pages={4773-4787.e8}
}
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