“…Around the island of Moorea, (French Polynesia, Fig. 1 ), 10 sites (Apaura, Haapiti, Maharepa, Paorea, Papetoai, Pihaena, Tiki, Vaiane, Vaiare, and Valorie), have been annually monitored and sampled during parturition seasons (from October to February each year) as part of long-term population dynamic surveys carried out by the Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE), as these 10 sites have been identified as inshore reef shark nursery areas 10 , 35 (Fig. 1 ).…”