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)

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Journal Articles

• 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
• Grant M, Smart J, Rigby C, White W, Chin A, Baje L and Simpfendorfer C (2019) Intraspecific demography of the silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis): implications for fisheries management. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77 (1). pp. 241-255
• 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).
• Rigby C, White W and Kyne P (2017) Description of the egg cases of Dentiraja polyommata (Rajiformes: Rajidae) and Aysmbolus pallidus (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa, 4294 (3). pp. 329-341
• Rigby C, White W and Simpfendorfer C (2016) Deepwater chondrichthyan bycatch of the Eastern King Prawn fishery in the Southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. PLoS ONE, 11 (5). pp. 1-24
• Rigby C, White W, Smart J and Simpfendorfer C (2016) Life histories of two deep-water Australian endemic elasmobranchs: Argus skate Dipturus polyommata and eastern spotted gummy shark Mustelus walkeri. Journal of Fish Biology, 88 (3). pp. 1149-1174

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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