ABSTRACT
It is intuitive that information on the habitat use of sharks would be important for management and conservation. Olsen (1954) determined that newborn school sharks, Galeorhinus galeus, occur in protected coastal bays around Tasmania and proposed that these areas be protected (Figure 19.1). Despite some early recognition of the importance of habitat use information it was only in the 1990s that resource managers and researchers began focusing research on essential fish habitat, critical habitat, and marine protected areas.
