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A 1,688-pound female great white shark called Miss Costa was spotted this week swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida panhandle, according to researchers. A transmitter on the sub-adult shark “pinged” south of […]
A Maryland angler’s epic battle with a giant thresher shark could be one for the record books, but regardless it was a day on the water Nick Skidmore will never forget. “The fight took 2 […]
Who knew that shortfin mako sharks and South Florida’s seasonal residents shared something in common? “Rob,” a five and one-half-foot long male shortfin mako shark, is officially a snowbird. Tagged off the coast of Ocean […]
Groups of basking sharks ranging from as few as 30 to nearly 1,400 individual animals have been observed aggregating in waters from Nova Scotia to Long Island. While individual sightings are fairly common, seeing large […]
Not freezing temperatures nor nor’easters nor Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose or Maria can stop “Andy,” a tiger shark tagged in Bermuda by scientists from Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Guy Harvey Research Institute(GHRI) in 2014. Travelling approximately 37,565 miles […]
Amendment 5b implemented a range of management measures to end overfishing and rebuild overfished dusky sharks. Other measures for Amendment 5b became effective June 5, 2017. For more details on all of these measures, and to view […]
Sharks are some of the sea’s most well-known but misunderstood inhabitants. They simultaneously provoke fascination and hysteria wherever they appear. Excessive fear of their ferocity and aggression has tainted people’s relationship with sharks, threatening their […]
News 6 1st Reported the update to this story first: Florida Gov. Rick Scott is asking the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to take a closer look at state regulations in wake of the […]
Rare footage shows an attack on a hammerhead shark by a tiger shark off the coast of Louisiana. A sport fisherman had gotten the hammerhead on the line only minutes before the other, much larger […]
Startribune.com reported on this first: “Shark Week” came early for an angler in northern Minnesota who caught a shark’s jawbone while fishing the Mississippi River near Highway 6, just west of Grand Rapids. “When we […]
At first, they had no idea what it was. It was late Spring, and the waters northeast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i were calm and flat. Things seemed uneventful. But, suddenly, the crew of […]
A college student on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico caught dramatic footage of a big tiger shark repeatedly attacking a hammerhead on a fishing line. Shot on July 17, the video shows […]
As the summer beach season opens in the United States, at least one expert is predicting an increase in shark attacks around the world this year that will surpass last year’s record number. “We should […]
Many people who saw us on the Discovery Channel’s Pacific Warriors TV show have asked about the tiger shark that came to visit after we caught the marlin. How big was it? Did the production […]
Two fishermen in Western Australia spent 10 days fishing on a beach north of Carnarvon and reported catching and releasing 30 sharks, including two “mega sharks” that captured international attention, The West Australian reported. Joshua […]
NOAA Fisheries strives to achieve balance between the long-term survival of fish stocks with the long-term survival of fisheries, which includes commercial and recreational fishermen—the shark fishery is no exception to this. Last week, NOAA […]
Robin Berg, a former U.S. Navy deep sea diver and marine naturalist/conservationist, and Eli Martinez, the go-to expert on shark behavior, intentionally dove into the water with a monster mako shark in order film its […]
The first hammerhead shark fitted with a satellite tracking tag off Southern California has traveled more than 1,000 miles to Mexico and back again since NOAA Fisheries researchers tagged it near San Clemente Island about […]
The longest running coastal shark research survey along the East Coast has completed its 2015 field work, capturing and tagging more than 2,800 sharks, the most in the survey’s 29-year history. The results are very […]
The Brooklyn-based Long Quan Seafood Corp. pleaded guilty to felony commercialization of wildlife on June 22 in Brooklyn Criminal Court and paid a $10,000 fine for trafficking in shark fins, New York State Department of […]
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces a proposed rule that would establish quota levels and opening dates for the 2016 Atlantic commercial shark fisheries. The proposed 2016 quotas, adjusted as appropriate to account for […]
August is a great time to target sharks in the Central East Region because the ocean is calm and the baitfish are schooling along the beaches within a mile or two of shore. For the […]
An incredibly massive tiger shark presumably caught by a commercial fisherman off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, has raised questions as to who caught it, who took the photos and whether it is […]
Fishermen reeled in a 13-foot tiger shark off Folly Beach this past weekend. The shark, estimated to be 800 pounds, was caught on Saturday a mile off Folly Beach near the washout. Joe Morris said […]
Brook Crist of the Landshark Crew reels in a massive Tiger shark From a local Florida Beach. She fought the shark for 30 minutes and released it! This was one of 4 sharks we caught […]
By Peter Trull – Discover, through informative text and 120 vivid images, the interrelationships between commercial fishing, expanding gray seal populations, and great white sharks along the beaches of Cape Cod and the northeast coast.
A very small and rare species of shark is swimming its way through scientific literature. But don’t worry, the chances of this inches-long vertebrate biting through your swimsuit is extremely slim, because if you ever […]
Texas game wardens have seized a Mexican shark-fishing boat in state waters near the Texas-Mexico border. Wardens were patrolling the Gulf of Mexico earlier today for illegal fishing activity when they spotted a Mexican fishing […]
If you’re a dolphin in Sarasota Bay just south of Tampa, Fla., and want to avoid a shark bite, it’s best to stick to the sea grass, stay in shallower water and live in a […]
NOAA Fisheries continues its commitment to achieving sustainable management of sharks on a global scale as staff joined more than 60 participants, representing over 20 countries, in Santa Marta, Colombia, in a Convention on International […]
The hideous, mildly terrifying and rarely sighted frilled shark has turned up in waters off south-eastern Victoria. The species, whose ancestry dates back 80 million years, is known as the ‘living fossil’. It was caught […]
As white shark Katharine begins her migration south it may look like a hectic commute south but a closer look shows otherwise. Massachusetts Shark Research program Biologist John Chisholm points out that Katharine’s track is […]
Amos and his son Karl-Frederik catch the largest Greenland Shark they’ve ever landed and pull it up 800 metres through a hole in the ice before feeding it to their hungry dogs. “The Greenland shark […]
LA TIMES 1st Reported: Jeff Thomason’s record-breaking catch of a 809-pound mako shark with a bow and arrow has netted a school of criticism on social media. The Texan caught the massive shark in August […]
A giant tiger shark, measuring over 13 feet in length, was caught and then released off the coast of South Carolina this week, and speculation has centered around the idea that the predator may have […]
A man has caught a 12 ft shark after an epic battle with the beast that nearly sank his boat. Ryan Spring of San Antonio, Texas, hooked the 809 lbs tiger shark while fishing in the gulf […]
AL.com Reorted first: After a shark bit a man’s knee Saturday on Dauphin Island, AL.com asked Dauphin Island Sea Lab researchers about the behavior of the shark. Researchers say it’s not unusual for a shark to […]
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat…” – Chief Brody, JAWS. Joel Abrahamsson was having similar thoughts as he hooked into an enormous Greenland shark just off the Norwegian coast Monday, perched not on a fishing […]
Overfishing is taking its toll on many shark populations around the world. In general, sharks grow slowly, mature late, and produce few young over long lifetimes. That makes them especially vulnerable to over exploitation and […]
Discovery’s Shark Week has made its biggest ratings splash yet in several key ratings categories, including a first-place finish among all networks – broadcast and cable – in men under 50. The 27th edition of […]
Celebrate Shark Week with NOAA Fisheries! New stories, videos, a podcast, and a tweet chat highlight the shark science and conservation work we conduct 365 days a year. Be sure to check out:
MASS Live Reported – A shark researcher has attached an electronic tracking device to a great white shark off Chatham. The Cape Cod Times reported it was the first time this year that a great […]
Grindtv.com First Reported. There are fish tales, and there are fish tails. This tale involves a common thresher shark, caught recently off Florida, which boasted a tail fin so long that it boosted the predator’s […]
Fifty sharks, tuna, tarpon and billfish are swimming around the Gulf of Mexico right now fitted with satellite-linked tags to help scientists track water temperatures and perhaps one day help improve hurricane forecasting. The devices […]
Answering every conceivable question about sharks, authors Gene Helfman and George H. Burgess describe the fascinating biology, behavior, diversity (there are more than 1,000 species worldwide), and cultural importance of sharks, their close relationship to […]
Two sharks. Two species. And two different journeys that have kept marine scientists closely monitoring the migrations of these satellite tagged sharks for months—one for its place in history and the second for the way […]
It’s no doubt that we think the Blacktip Challenge is completely cool. Not on only for the participants going toe-to-toe with big sharks from the beach, but for bringing anglers together to contribute substantial amounts […]
Channel 7 Florida Reported: A fisherman reeled in a big catch off Lauderdale-By-The-Sea Monday afternoon, and it was all caught on camera. A Hammerhead Shark, nearly 13-feet in length, was caught just feet from the […]
A Milton man and land-based shark fisherman said he believes he and his cousin may have reeled in their latest world record catch Tuesday night. Earnie Polk, 43, said he and Joey Polk hooked an […]
When a shark tagged off the Eastern Shore as part of a marine-life tracking project took off on an unprecedented monthlong journey, researchers quite literally watched its every move. Thanks to cutting-edge satellite tags, scientists […]
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