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Top: Sand tiger shark, photo by D Ross Robertson via Wikipedia For some reason, the summer of 2022 has seen an unusual number of people being bitten by sharks off the beaches of Long Island, New York. According to the International Shark Attack Files, a comprehensive aggregation of all known shark attacks dating back to […]
Perhaps no one ever captured the essence of the shortfin mako as well as Ernest Hemingway: He was a very big Mako shark, built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws. His back was as blue as a swordfish’s and his belly […]
Top photo by by Mark Conlin, SWFSC Large Pelagics Program In September 2021, at a meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), the United States, supported by the European Union and other nations, proposed that NAFO ban the retention of Greenland sharks accidentally caught in the Arctic and western Atlantic waters that fall under […]
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