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DIGITAL REPOSITORY

FISHERIES

Darquea,J.J., C. Ortiz-Alvarez, F. Cordova-Zavaleta, R. Medina, A. Bielli, J. Alfaro-Shigueto, J.C. Mangel. 2020. Trialing net illumination as a mitigation measure in gillnet artisanal fishery in Ecuador. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Resources 48(3): 446-455.

Alfaro-Shigueto J, Mangel JC, Darquea J, Donoso M, Baquero A, Doherty PD, et al. Untangling the impacts of nets in the southeastern Pacific: Rapid assessment of marine turtle bycatch to set conservation priorities in small-scale fisheries. Fish. Res. 2018;206(2018):185–92.

Bielli, A., J.C. Mangel, P. Doherty, B.G. Godley, C. Ortiz, A. Pasara, J. Wang, J. Alfaro-Shigueto. 2020. An illuminating idea to reduce bycatch in the Peruvian small-scale gillnet fishery. Biological Conservation 241(2020): 108277.

Alfaro-Cordova E, Del Solar A, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Mangel JC, Diaz B, Carrillo O, et al. Captures of manta and devil rays by small-scale gillnet fisheries in northern Peru. Fish. Res. [Internet]. Elsevier; 2017;195(2017):28–36. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2017.06.012

Mason, J., J. Alfaro-Shigueto, J.C. Mangel, S. Brodie, S.J. Bograd, L. Crowder, E.L. Hazen. 2019. Convergence of fishers’ knowledge and an ecological model in species distribution modeling. Conservation Science and Practice 2019: e13.

Alfaro Shigueto, J., Mangel, J., Pajuelo, M., Dutton, P., Seminoff, J., Godley, B. 2010. Where small scale can have a large impact: Structure and characterization of small-scale fisheries in Peru. Fisheries Research 106: 8-17.

Bartholomew DC, Mangel JC, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Pingo S, Jimenez A, Godley BJ. Remote electronic monitoring as a potential alternative to on-board observers in small-scale fisheries. Biol. Conserv. 2018;219(2018):35–45.

Mangel, J., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Van Waerebeek, K., Caceres, C., Bearhop, S., Witt, M., Godley, B. 2010. Small cetacean captures in Peruvian artisanal fisheries: High despite protective legislation. Biological Conservation 143: 136-143.

DOLPHINS, PORPOISES AND WHALES

Campbell, E., Pasara, A., J.C. Mangel, J. Alfaro-Shigueto. In press. Use of small cetaceans as bait in small-scale fisheries in Peru. Frontiers in Marine Conservation.

Campbell, E., J.C. Mangel, J. Alfaro-Shigueto, J.L. Mena, R.H. Thurstan, B.J. Godley. 2020. Coexisting in the Amazon River: Interactions between fisheries and river dolphins. Journal of Nature Conservation 56(2020): 125859.

Guidino, C., E. Campbell, B. Alcorta, V. Gonzalez, J.C. Mangel, A.S. Pacheco, S. Silva, J. Alfaro-Shigueto. 2020. Whale-watching in northern Peru: An economic boom? Tourism in Marine Environments 15(1): 1-10.

Clay, T.A., J. Alfaro-Shigueto, N. Tregenza, B.J. Godley, J.C. Mangel. 2019. Pingers reduce the activity of Burmeister’s porpoise around small-scale gillnet vessels. Marine Ecology Progress Series 626: 197-208.

Campbell, E., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Godley, B. J., & Mangel, J. C. 2017. Abundance estimate of the Amazon River dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) and the tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) in southern Ucayali, Peru. Latin american journal of aquatic research, 45(5), 957-969.

Van Waerebeek, K., Van Bressem, M-F., Felix, F., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Garcia Godos, A., Chavez Lisambart, L., Onton, K., Montes, D., Bello, R. 1997. Mortality of dolphins and porpoises in coastal fisheries off Peru and southern Ecuador in 1994. Biological Conservation 81: 43-49.

Mangel, J., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Witt, M., Hodson, D., Godley, B. 2013. Using pingers to reduce bycatch of small cetaceans in Peru's small-scale drifnet fishery. Fauna & Flora International, Oryx. 1-12.

Cossíos, D., Alcázar, P., Fajardo, U., Chávez, K., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Cárdenas-Alayza, S., Valqui, J., Montero, F., Lescano, J., Quevedo, M., Vivar, E., Leite, R., Ledesma, K., Medina, C., Maffei, L., Amanzo, J., Chávez, C., Enciso, M., García, A., Mangel, J., Mendoza, J., Rojas, G., Silva, L., Villegas, L., Williams, R., Zúñiga, A., Cruz, A., IMARPE., Ruiz, E., DSGFFS. 2012. El orden Carnivora (Mammalia) en el Perú: Estado del conocimiento y prioridades de investigación para su conservación. Rev. peru. biol. 19.1:17-26.

Tzika, A.C., D'Amico, E., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Mangel, J., Van Waerebeek, K., Milinkovitch, M. 2010. Molecular identification of small cetacean samples from Peruvian fish markets. Conservation Genetics 11: 2207-2218.

Van Bressem, M-F., Cassonnet, P., Rector, A., Desaintes, C., Van Waerebeek, K., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Van Ranst, M., Orth, G. 2007. Genital warts in Burmeister's porpoises: Characterization of Phocoena spinipinnis papillomavirus type 1 (PsPV-1), and evidence for a second, distantly related PsPV. Journal of General Virology 88: 1928-1933.

Van Bressem, M-F., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Geysen, K., Onton, K., Vega, D., Chavez Lisambart, L., Van Waerebeek, K. 2006. Dolphins and children: A blueprint for marine environmental education in Peru. Applied Environmental Education and Communication 5:183-191.

García, I., Van Waerebeek, K., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Mangel, J. 2013. Entanglements of large Cetaceans in Peru: Few records but high risk. Pacific Science. 67.1:1-16.

Van Bressem, M-F., Van Waerebeek, K., Montes, D., Kennedy, S., Reyes, J.C., Garcia Godos, A., Onton, K., Alfaro Shigueto, J. 2006. Diseases, lesions and malformations in the long-beaked common dolphin Delphinus capensis from the Southeast Pacific. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 68: 149-165.

Van Waerebeek, K., Reyes, J.C., Alfaro Shigueto , J. 1993. Helminth parasites and phoronts of dusky dolphins Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828) from Peru. Aquatic Mammals 19.3: 159-169.

Rosa, S., Milinkovitch, M., Van Waerebeek, K., Berck, J., Oporto, J., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Van Bressem, M-F., Goodall, N., Cassens, I. 2005. Population structure of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA variation among South American Burmeister´s porpoises (Phocoena spinipinnis). Conservation Genetics 6: 431-443.

OTHER MAMMALS

Alfaro-Shigueto, J., J. Valqui & J.C. Mangel. 2011. New record of the marine otter Lontra felina (Molina, 1782) north to its current distribution. Ecologia Aplicada 10(2): 87-91.

Vianna, J., Ayerdi, P., Medina-Vogel, G., Mangel, J., Zeballos, H., Apaza, M., Faugeron, S. 2010. Phylogeography of the Marine Otter (Lontra felina): Historical and contemporary factors determining its distribution. Journal of Heredity 10.1: 1-14.

Mangel, J., Whitty, T., Medina Vogel, G., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Caceres, C., Godley, B. 2011. Latitudinal variation in diet and patterns of human interaction in the marine otter. Marine Mammal Science 27.2: E14-E25.

SEA BIRDS

Mangel JC,Wang J, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Pingo S, Jimenez A, Carvalho F, Swimmer Y, Godley BJ. 2018 Illuminating gillnets to save seabirds and the potential for multi-taxa bycatch mitigation. R. Soc. open sci. 5: 180254.

Alfaro Shigueto, Joanna & Mangel, Jeffrey & Valenzuela, Katherine & Arias-Schreiber, Milena. (2016). The intentional harvest of waved albatrosses Phoebastria irrorata by small-scale offshore fishermen from Salaverry port, Peru. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences. 11. 70-77. 

Jimenez Uzcategui, G., Mangel, J., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Anderson, D. 2006. Fishery Bycatch of the Waved albatross Phoebastria irrorata, a need for implementation of agreements. Galapagos Research 64: 7-9.

Hidalgo Aranzamendi, N., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Zavalaga, C. 2010. New records of broad-billed prions (Pachyptila vittata) in southern Peru. Notornis 57: 39-42.

Zavalaga, C., Engblom, G., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Mangel, J. 2010. Immature northern giant petrels Macronectes halli visiting the coast of Peru. Marine Ornithology 37: 237-240.

Garcia Godos, I., Van Waerebeek, K., Reyes, J.C., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Arias-Schreiber, M. 2007. Prey occurrence in the stomach contents of four small cetacean species in Peru. Lajam 6.2: 171-183.

Awkerman, J., Huyvaert, K., Mangel, J., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Anderson, D. 2006. Incidental and intentional catch threatens Galapagos waved albatross. Biological Conservation 133: 483-489.

Zavalaga, Carlos & Alfaro Shigueto, Joanna. (2015). Unveiling an Important Humboldt Penguin ( Spheniscus humboldti ) Breeding Colony in Perú and the Need for Its Protection Against the Potential Impact of Guano Harvest. Waterbirds. 38. 302-307. 10.1675/063.038.0311. 

SEA TURTLES

Ortiz-Alvarez, C., M. Pajuelo, D. Grados, M.E. Abrego, M. Barrantes. A.Cotto Sanchez, L.G. Fonseca,  V. Gadea Espinal, J.C. Mangel, J.M. Rguez-Baron, P. Santidrian Tomillo, L. Sarti, H. Santana, , G. Shillinger, M. Prado, B. Wallace, A. Williard, A. Zavala, J. Alfaro-Shigueto. 2020. Rapid assessments of leatherback bycatch across nesting and interesting areas from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: article 813.

Arlidge, W.N.S., J. Alfaro-Shigueto, B. Ibanez-Erquiaga, J.C. Mangel, D. Squires, E.J. Milner-Gulland. 2020. Evaluating Elicited Judgements of Green Turtle Bycatch in Small-scale Fisheries. Conservation Science and Practice (2020),2: e181.

Arlidge, W., Squires, D., J. Alfaro-Shigueto, Hollie Booth, J.C. Mangel, E.J. Milner-Gulland. 2020. A mitigation hierarchy approach for managing sea turtle captures in small-scale fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science 7: Article 49.

Hoover, A.L., D. Liang, J. Alfaro-Shigueto, P. Dutton, J.C. Mangel, P.I. Miller, S. Morreale, L. Sarti, H. Bailey, G.L. Shillinger. 2019. Predicting residence time using a continuous-time Markov chain model of satellite telemetry data from Eastern Pacific leatherback turtles. Ecosphere 10(3): e02644.

The Laud OPO Network. 2020. Enhanced, coordinated conservation efforts required to avoid extinction of critically endangered Eastern Pacific leatherbacks. Scientific Reports 10:4772.

Jiménez, A., S. Pingo, J. Alfaro-Shigueto & J.C. Mangel. 2017. Feeding ecology of the green turtle Chelonia mydas in northern Peru. Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res., 45(3): 585-596.

Gaos, A., M.J. Liles, V. Gadea, A. Peña de Niz, F. Vallejo, C. Miranda, J. Jessica Darquea, A. Henriquez, E. Altamirano, A. Rivera, S. Chavarría, D. Melero, J. Urteaga, C.M. Pacheco, D. Chácon, C. LeMarie, J. Alfaro-Shigueto, J.C. Mangel, I. Yañez & J.A. Seminoff. 2017. Living on the Edge: hawksbill turtle nesting and conservation along the eastern Pacific rim. Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res., 45(3): 572-584

Pingo, S., A. Jimenez, J. Alfaro-Shigueto & J.C. Mangel. 2017. Incidental capture of sea turtles in the artisanal fishery in Sechura Bay, northern Peru. Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res., 45(3): 606-614.

Ortiz, N & Mangel, Jeffrey & Wang, John & Alfaro Shigueto, Joanna & Pingo Paiva, Sergio & Jimenez Heredia, Astrid & Suarez, Tania & Swimmer, Yonat & Carvalho, F & Godley, Brendan. 2016. Reducing green turtle bycatch in small-scale fisheries using illuminated gillnets: The cost of saving a sea turtle. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 545. 10.3354/meps11610. 

Suarez, Tania & Montes, David & Zúñiga, Renato & Mangel, Jeffrey & Alfaro Shigueto, Joanna. 2016. Hematologic, Morphometric, and Biochemical Analytes of Clinically Healthy Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas ) in Peru. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 15. 153-157. 10.2744/CCB-1160.1. 

Velez-Zuazo X, Mangel JC, Seminoff JA, Wallace BP, Alfaro-Shigueto J. Preface: Filling the gaps in sea turtle research and conservation in the region where it began: Latin America. Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res. 2017;45(3):501–5.

Pfaller, J., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Giffoni, B., Ishihara, T., Mangel, J., Peckham, H., Bjorndal, K., Baeza, J. 2014. Social monogamy in the crab Planes major, a facultative symbiont of loggerhead sea turtles. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 461: 124-132.

Pfaller, J., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Balazs, G., Ishihara, T., Kopitsky, K., Mangel, J., Peckham, S., Bolten, A., Bjorndal, K. 2014. Hitchhikers reveal cryptic host behavior: new insights from the association between Planes major and sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean. Marine Biology 161.9: 2167-2178.

Alfaro Shigueto, J., Mangel, J., Dutton, P., Seminoff, J., Godley, J. 2012. Trading information for conservation: a novel use of radio broadcasting to reduce sea turtle bycatch. Fauna & Flora International, Oryx 46. 3: 332-339.

Mangel, J., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Witt, M., Dutton, P., Seminoff, J., Godley, B. 2011. Post-capture movements of loggerhead turtles in the southeastern Pacific Ocean assessed by satellite tracking. Marine Ecology Progress Series 433: 261-272.

Alfaro Shigueto, J., Mangel, J., Bernedo, F., Dutton, P., Seminoff, J., Godley, B. 2011. Small scale fisheries of Peru: a major sink for marine turtles in the Pacific. Journal of Applied Ecology 10.11: 1-9.

Alfaro Shigueto, J., Mangel, J., Caceres, C., Seminoff, J., Gaos, A., Yañez, I. 2010. Hawksbill turtles in the Peruvian costal fisheries. Marine Turtle Newsletter 129: 19-21.

Gaos, A., Abreu-Grobois, F.A., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Amorocho, D., Arauz, R., Baquero, A., Briseño, R., Chacón, D., Dueñas, C., Hasbún, C., Liles, M., Mariona, G., Muccio, C., Muñoz, J.P., Nichols, W.J., Peña, M., Seminoff, J., Vásquez, M., Urteaga, J., Wallace, B., Yañez, I.L., Zárate, P . 2010. Signs of hope in the eastern Pacific: international collaboration reveals encouraging status for the severely depleted population of hawksbill turtles: Eretmochelys imbricata. Oryx: 1-7.

Gilman, E., Gearhart, J., Price, B., Eckert, S., Milliken, H., Wang, J., Swimmer, Y., Shiode, D., Abe, O., Peckham, H., Chaloupka, M., Hall, M., Mangel, J., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Dalzell, P., Ishizaki, A. 2010. Mitigating sea turtle by-catch in coastal passive net fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 11:57-88.

Pajuelo, M., Bjorndal, K., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Seminoff, J., Mangel, J., Bolten, A.B. 2010. Stable isotope variation in loggerhead turtles reveals Pacific-Atlantic oceanographic differences. Marine Ecology Progress Series 417: 277–285.

Alfaro Shigueto, J., Mangel, J., Seminoff, J., Dutton, P. 2008. Demography of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta in the southeastern Pacific Ocean: fisheries-based observations and implications for management. Endangered Species Research 5: 129-135.

Alfaro Shigueto, J., Dutton, P., Van Bressem, M-F., Mangel, J. 2007. Interactions between leatherback turtles and Peruvian artisanal fisheries. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6.1: 129-134.

Alfaro Shigueto, J., Dutton, P., Mangel, J., Vega, D. 2004. First confirmed occurrence of loggerhead turtles in Peru. Marine Turtle Newsletter 103: 7-11.

SHARKS AND STINGRAY

Acuna-Perales, N., Cordova-Zavaleta, F., Alfaro-Shigueto, J. and Mangel C. J. 2021. First records of Megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios (Taylor, Compagno & Struhsaker, 1983) as bycatch in Peruvian small-scale net fisheries. Marine Biodiversity Records.

Gonzalez-Pestana, A., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Mangel, J.C. 2020. “Diet, trophic interactions and possible ecological role of commercial sharks and batoids in northern Peruvian Waters. Journal of Fish Biology.

Gonzalez-Pestana A, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Mangel JC. 2019. Aspects of reproductive biology of the humpback smooth-hound shark (Mustelus whitneyi) off northern Peru. Mar. Freshw. Res. 

González-Pestana A, Acuña-Perales N, Córdova F, Coasaca J, Alfaro E, Alfaro-Shigueto J, et al. 2019. Feeding habits of thresher sharks Alopias sp. in northern Peru: Predators of Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas). J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. United Kingdom. 99(3):695–702.

Córdova-Zavaleta F, Mendo J, Briones-Hernández SA, Acuña-Perales N, Gonzalez-Pestana A, Alfaro-Shigueto J, et al. 2018. Food habits of the blue shark, prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758), in waters off northern peru. Fish. Bull. 116(3–4):310–22.

Alfaro-Cordova E, Del Solar A, Gonzalez-Pestana A, Acuña-Perales N, Coasaca J, Cordova-Zavaleta F, Alfaro-Shigueto, J. & Mangel, J. 2018. Isotopic niches of four commercially important pelagic elasmobranch species captured by the small-scale driftnet fishery of northern Peru. Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res. 46(2):482–8.

Pajuelo M, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Romero M, Pásara-Polack A, Solano A, Vela G, et al. 2018. Occurrence and Bycatch of Juvenile and Neonate Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Peruvian Waters. Pacific Sci. 72(4):1–23.

Gonzalez-Pestana A, Acuña-Perales N, Coasaca-Cespedes J, Cordova-Zavaleta F, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Mangel JC, et al. 2017. Trophic ecology of the smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna Zygaena) off the coast of northern Peru. Fish. Bull. 115(4): 451–9.

Gonzalez-Pestana A, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Mangel JC, Espinoza P. 2017. Niveles de mercurio en el tiburón martillo Sphyrna zygaena (Carcharhiniformes: Sphyrnidae) del norte del Perú. Rev. Peru. Biol. 24(4):407–11.

Velez-Zuazo, Ximena & Alfaro Shigueto, Joanna & Mangel, Jeffrey & Papa, Riccardo & Agnarsson, Ingi. 2014. What barcode sequencing reveals about the shark fishery in Peru. Fisheries Research. 161. 34-41. 10.1016/j.fishres.2014.06.005. 

Gilman, E., Clarke, S., Brothers, N., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Mandelman, J., Mangel, J., Petersen, S., Piovano, S., Thomson, N., Dalzell, P., Donoso, M., Goren, M., Werner, T. 2008. Shark interactions in pelagic longline fisheries. Marine Policy 32: 1-18.

Doherty, P., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Hodson, D., Mangel, J., Witt, M., Godley, B. 2014. Big catch,  little sharks: Insight into Peruvian small-scale longline fisheries. Ecology and Evolutions.

Coasaca-Céspedes JJ, Segura-Cobeña E, Montero-Taboada R, Gonzalez-Pestana A, Alfaro-Córdova E, Alfaro-Shigueto J, et al. 2018. Preliminary analysis of the feeding habits of batoids from the genera Mobula and Myliobatis in northern Peru. Rev. Biol. Mar. Oceanogr. 53(3):367–74.

Benavides, M., Feldheim, K., Duffy, C., Wintner, S., Braccini, M., Boomer, J., Huveneers, C., Rogers, P., Mangel, J., Alfaro Shigueto, J., Cartamil, D., Chapman, D. 2011. Phylogeography of the copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus) in the southern hemisphere: implications for the conservation of a coastal apex predator. Marine and Freshwater Research 62: 861-869.

SUNFISH

Tierney, T., Whitney, J., Hearn, A., Weng, K., Peñaherrera, C., Jawad, I., Alfaro-Shigueto, J., Mangel, J., Karl, S. 2013. First record of the southern ocean sunfish, Mola ramsayi, in the Galápagos Marine Reserve. Marine Biodiversity Records.

Mangel JC, Pajuelo M, Pasara-Polack A, Vela G, Segura-Cobeña E, Alfaro-Shigueto J. The effect of Peruvian small-scale fisheries on sunfishes (Molidae). J Fish Biol. 2019;94:77–85. 

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