The maximum intrinsic population growth rate, r max , is a key determinant of sustainable fishing limits and is increasingly used in risk assessments. We previously showed how the r max of rays and skates (subclass Batoidea) scales with adult body size, temperature (and hence depth) such that smaller‐bodied species and those in warmer, shallower waters have greater r max and, therefore, will be less sensitive to overexploitati...

Fisheries management is essential to guarantee sustainable capture of target species and avoid undesirable declines of incidentally captured species. A key challenge is halting and reversing declines of shark and ray species, and specifically assessing the degree to which management is sufficient to avoid declines in relatively data‐poor fisheries. While ecological risk analyses focus on intrinsic ‘productivity’ and extrinsic...