Dr Cassandra Rigby ~ Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Cassandra has worked as a marine fisheries and conservation scientist in shark fisheries, management, and research across government, academia and NGOs over the past 20 years. First delving into the shark world through shark finning issues in the late 1990s, Cassandra has since been involved with Australian shark fisheries sustainability, deep water sharks’ life history (PhD), CITES capacity building for sharks and rays, and efficacy of marine protected areas for shark and ray conservation. More recently, Cassandra contributed to ecological risk assessments of southern Oceans deepwater sharks, risk summaries of all Australian sharks, and developed WWF tools to improve shark management and conservation in developing countries.

Research Disciplines

• Environmental management (4104)
• Ecology (3103)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Marine systems and management (1805)
• Fisheries - wild caught (1003)

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Journal Articles

• Pacoureau N, Carlson J, Kindsvater H, Rigby C, Winker H, Simpfendorfer C, Charvet P, Pollom R, Barreto R, Samantha Sherman C, Talwar B, Skerritt D, Rashid Sumaila U, Matsushiba J, VanderWright W, Yan H and Dulvy N (2023) Conservation successes and challenges for wide-ranging sharks and rays. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (5).
• Sherman C, Simpfendorfer C, Pacoureau N, Matsushiba J, Yan H, Walls R, Rigby C, VanderWright W, Jabado R, Pollom R, Carlson J, Charvet P, Bin Ali A, Fahmi , Cheok J, Derrick D, Herman K, Finucci B, Eddy T, Palomares M, Avalos-Castillo C, Kinattumkara B, Blanco-Parra M, Dharmadi , Espinoza M, Fernando D, Haque A, Mejía-Falla P, Navia A, Pérez-Jiménez J, Utzurrum J, Yuneni R and Dulvy N (2023) Half a century of rising extinction risk of coral reef sharks and rays. Nature Communications, 14.
• Campbell M and Rigby C (2022) A re-examination of the growth of the gummy shark (Mustelus antarcticus) from Queensland, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 73 (11). pp. 1399-1403
• Talwar B, Anderson B, Avalos-Castillo C, del Pilar Blanco-Parra M, Briones A, Cardenosa D, Carlson J, Charvet P, Cotton C, Crysler Z, Derrick D, Heithaus M, Herman K, Koubrak O, Kulka D, Kyne P, Lasso-Alcala O, Mejia-Falla P, Morales-Saldana J, Naranjo-Elizondo B, Navia A, Pacoureau N, Perez-Jimenez J, Pollom R, Rigby C, Schneider E, Simpson N and Dulvy N (2022) Extinction risk, reconstructed catches and management of chondrichthyan fishes in the Western Central Atlantic Ocean. Fish and Fisheries, 23 (5). pp. 1150-1179
• Dulvy N, Pacoureau N, Rigby C, Pollom R, Jabado R, Ebert D, Finucci B, Pollock C, Cheok J, Derrick D, Herman K, Sherman C, VanderWright W, Lawson J, Walls R, Carlson J, Charvet P, Bineesh K, Fernando D, Ralph G, Matsushiba J, Hilton-Taylor C, Fordham S and Simpfendorfer C (2021) Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis. Current Biology, 31 (21). pp. 4773-4787
• Pacoureau N, Rigby C, Kyne P, Sherley R, Winker H, Carlson J, Fordham S, Barreto R, Fernando D, Francis M, Jabado R, Herman K, Liu K, Marshall A, Pollom R, Romanov E, Simpfendorfer C, Yin J, Kindsvater H and Dulvy N (2021) Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays. Nature, 589. pp. 567-571
• Georgeson L, Rigby C, Emery T, Fuller M, Hartog J, Williams A, Hobday A, Duffy C, Simpfendorfer C, Okuda T, Stobutzki I and Nicol S (2020) Ecological risks of demersal fishing on deepwater chondrichthyan populations in the Southern Indian and South Pacific Oceans. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77 (5). pp. 1711-1727
• Grant M, Smart J, Rigby C, White W, Chin A, Baje L and Simpfendorfer C (2020) Intraspecific demography of the silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis): implications for fisheries management. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77 (1). pp. 241-255
• Kyne P, Jabado R, Rigby C, Dharmadi , Gore M, Pollock C, Herman K, Cheok J, Ebert D, Simpfendorfer C and Dulvy N (2020) The thin edge of the wedge: extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes. Aquatic Conservation: marine and freshwater ecosystems, 30 (7). pp. 1337-1361
• Munroe S, Rigby C and Hussey N (2020) Evidence for inter- and intraspecific trophic niche separation among deepwater elasmobranchs on the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 636. pp. 107-121
• Sherley R, Winker H, Rigby C, Kyne P, Pollom R, Pacoureau N, Herman K, Carlson J, Yin J, Kindsvater H and Dulvy N (2019) Estimating IUCN Red List population reduction: JARA-A decision-support tool applied to pelagic sharks. Conservation Letters, 13 (2).

Book Chapters

• Rigby C, Foley W and Simpfendorfer C (2018) Near-infrared spectroscopy for shark ageing and biology. In: Shark Research: emerging technologies and applications for the field and laboratory. Marine Biology Series. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp. 201-217

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