User:Jersey gal202/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Julia M Lawson, Riley A Pollom, Cat A Gordon, Joanna Barker, Eva K M Meyers, Heike Zidowitz, Jim R Ellis, Álex Bartolí, Gabriel Morey, Sarah L Fowler, David Jiménez Alvarado, Sonja V Fordham, Rowland Sharp, Ali R Hood, Nicholas K Dulvy, Extinction risk and conservation of critically endangered angel sharks in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 77, Issue 1, January-February 2020, Pages 12–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz222

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article because I believe this will be helpful with my research that I plan to do on Sawback Angelsharks. Although this article covers multiple species of the Angelshark, the study focused on three main types, one of them being the Sawback Angelshark.

Evaluate the article
This article is research that has been discovered about the updated habitat and global status, and world map of their updated habitat. It begins by talking about he uptick in fishing off the coast of the Mediterranean coast, the place where many of the angelshark species reside. This caused for them to slowly be killed off. The research conducted seems highly supported by theories and experiments, and they include a good list of citations and other referenced experiments. It was published in the ICES journal of Marine Science, which means that it had to pass through a peer review session, so it is an article that is well read through, and not likely to contain any misinformation. The article refers to the data in the experiments to draw conclusions, and not on the scientists previous beliefs or personal opinions. I believe this research will help me update the Wikipedia page already in existence, as just by looking at the map that they have published, I can tell that it is different than the one that is on Wikipedia currently. Since this information was published recently, it is unlikely that the data has changed for this species, although the number of sharks in the given area may have shrunk due to its endangered status.