Taratau Kirata
A5056787402- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resource Development
2022-2023
A global survey of coral reefs reveals that overfishing is driving resident shark species toward extinction, causing diversity deficits in reef elasmobranch (shark and ray) assemblages. Our species-level analysis revealed declines 60 to 73% for five common individual were not detected at 34 47% surveyed reefs. As become more shark-depleted, rays begin dominate Shark-dominated assemblages persist wealthy nations with strong governance highly protected areas, whereas poverty, weak governance,...
Ciguatera is one of the most widespread food poisonings caused by ingestion fish contaminated ciguatoxins (CTXs). Snapper and grouper with high palatable economic value are primary source species for exportation in Republic Kiribati, but they highly suspected CTX-contaminated due to their top predatory characteristics. In this study, 60 specimens from 17 snappers groupers collected Kiritimati Island Marakei Kiribati were analyzed using mouse neuroblastoma (N2a) assay liquid...