Thursday, January 10, 2013

Shark Bytes - January 10, 2013

Embryonic Sharks Freeze to Avoid Detection Although shark pups are born with all the equipment they'll ever need to defend themselves and hunt down food, developing embryos still stuck in their egg cases are vulnerable to predators. But a new study finds that even these baby sharks can ...

Mary Lee the great white shark cruising off Fernandina Beach Mary Lee, the giant great white shark, is still in the neighborhood -- she was some 18 miles off of Fernandina Beach at 9:50 Thursday morning, on a track that was taking her to the northeast. Though no one knows where she'll go next, one thing's for ...

Great White shark getting comfortable with NE Florida coastline JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. -- The great white shark nicknamed Mary Lee is getting pretty comfortable swimming around in our warm waters. Mary Lee, who measures 16 feet and weighs 3,456 pounds, has a GPS-tracking device attached to her dorsal fin ...

Sharks Tagged Off Cape Cod Tracked To Florida OCEARCH researchers tagged Mary Lee and Genie in September. Scientists just tracked the Great Whites to Florida. Mary Lee is a 16-foot 3,400 pound Great White shark and late Monday night she was 200 yards off Jacksonville Beach. Police asked people ...

Two great whites spotted near Jacksonville Nearly four months after she was tagged with a tracking device in Cape Cod, Mary Lee, a great white shark, was spotted in the surf off Jacksonville Beach on Tuesday and is now less than 10 miles offshore. OCEARCH, a non-profit ocean research company, ...

Conservationists welcome fake shark fin trade Fengtai Administration of Industry and Commerce launched an investigation Wednesday into shark fins after media reports that fake shark fins were being sold in seafood markets. However, as opposed to many fake food scandals in China, experts have said ...

Lifeguards on shark watch TASMANIAN surf lifesavers are on standby for aerial shark patrols, as record numbers of Tasmanians head to the state's most popular beaches. Surf Life Saving Tasmania general manager Tony van den Enden said a number of members had light aircraft ...

Shark kill order a wildlife threat The first order to catch and kill a shark off WA's south west coast could pose a serious threat to other endangered species, according to the Conservation Council. 09/01/13. Sharks caught in catch and kill order. More revealed ...

Shark fin soup a potentially dangerous delicacy Zhejiang authorities found many shark fins sold in the market are artificial products and some contain excessive levels of cadmium, a toxic metal. The industry and commerce department in Zhejiang province conducted a check of shark fin soup, a popular ...

Basking shark's incredible 3000-mile journey A basking shark has shocked experts by making an amazing 3000-mile journey from Ireland to Africa. The 5m/16' long female shark named Banda, was one of five tagged by the Irish Basking Shark Study Group last July, while she was feeding in waters off ...

White shark hunted Drumlines have been baited to catch the shark that has been menacing beaches around Dunsborough, including Meelup, Bunker Bay and Eagle Bay. Fisheries' regional manager Tony Cappelutti said the plan to catch and kill the shark was in response to the ...

OPINION: Majesty and man-eater myth Sharks have been part of our oceans for around 400 million years and today there are more than 500 different species inhabiting the world's oceans, estuaries and freshwater systems. The most recent authoritative text, Australian Sharks and Rays (2009 ...

Sharks caught in catch and kill order Lines which have large hooks on and are anchored in the water were initially set on Sunday catch a shark or sharks which have been seen repeatedly off beaches in Dunsborough. Multiple sightings of a great white shark about three to four metres have ...

Surfers' relief as monster tiger shark caught off Yaroomba A MONSTER tiger shark that has been spooking surfers on the Sunshine Coast has been caught a few hundred metres from shore. The 4.72m giant was reeled in from a drumline off Yaroomba near Coolum Beach. Shark catcher Paddy Dimond, doing his ...

Fears over large tiger shark at Noosa after surfer sightings Local surfers fear a large tiger shark has adopted the bays of the Noosa National Park as part of its territory after two confirmed late-afternoon sightings in the past week. ...

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