Avalos Castillo and Santana Morales: Artisanal elasmobranch fisheries off the Pacific coast of Guatemala 9 
Acknowledgments 
This study was supported by the Fundacioén Mundo Azul, 
the Rufford Foundation (grant no. 22366-1), the PADI 
Foundation (grant no. 32809), the Waitt Foundation (grant 
no. 44306), and the Shark Conservation Fund. We thank 
the National Council of Protected Areas of Guatemala for 
issuing the research license (license no. I-DRSO-001-2018) 
and J. Ortiz and the Center for Marine Studies and 
Aquaculture of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala 
for their support. We recognize A. Hacohen Domené for her 
support of the master thesis of the senior author. We are 
especially grateful for the support in the field provided by 
F. Polanco, A. Paz, and the fishermen we worked with and 
for the contributions of D. Cartamil. 
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