Shark Bytes - March 9, 2015

Giant great white shark caught off PEI was 'a teenager'

MSN.com

New research into great white sharks has revealed that a giant shark caught off P.E.I. in 1983 still had a lot of growing to do.

Harbor Patrol: No sightings of young white sharks near Ventura Harbor last weekend

Ventura County Star

The Ventura Harbor Patrol started taking down signs Monday that warned about juvenile shark sightings in the area. On Friday, Harbor Patrol officers ...

LISTEN: The Shark Arm Affair

Boing Boing

In 1935 a shark in an Australian aquarium vomited up a human forearm, a bizarre turn of events that sparked a confused murder investigation.

Shark Week 2015 Announced: New President Says He'll Ditch “Mermaids”, Other Fake Episodes ...

California Diver

Some recent gems have included Mermaids Caught On Camera, Megalodon: The Monster Shark, and Shark of Darkness: Wrath of Submarine ...

Daring diver taunts angry shark

9news.com.au 

As hard as the shark can tries, it just can't get close enough to the tasty rubber-suited human to take a chunk out of him, and the diver seems to know it

Resentment Brews against Ban on Catching Sharks

The New Indian Express

Protest is brewing among fishermen against ban on catching sharks. The Union Government imposed a ban on catching sharks only for their fins citing ...

Shark Bytes - March 5, 2015

 
Former Warrnambool man tells of NSW shark attack

Warrnambool Standard

Surfing chef and former Warrnambool student Jabez Reitman is back at work after recovering from a shark attack at Seven Mile Beach, south of Byron ...

Sharks blamed for tourism slump

NEWS.com.au

FIVE fatal shark attacks in Australian waters in less than 12-months and a spate of other shark-related incidents have been blamed for a dive in ...

Why Shark Finning Bans Aren't Keeping Sharks Off The Plate (Yet)

NPR (blog)

For decades, sharks have gotten a raw deal on the high seas, where fishermen have butchered them alive by the hundreds of millions and thrown ...

Great white shark caught, released in northwest Florida

Orlando Sentinel

Once they dragged it to shallow waters, they had a 10-minute photo session and tagged the shark before releasing it. Multiple shots show Smeby with ...

South Florida: Where the sharks are

Sun Sentinel

Thousands of blacktip sharks come within yards of South Florida's beaches during their winter migrations, and Kajiura, associate professor of biology ...

Hiding Out of Sight, Are Sharks Self Aware? (Op-Ed) - Live Science 

Costa Rica temporarily blocks exports of hammerhead shark fins - California Diver

Great White Shark Returns To Lake Macquarie, And It Brought A Friend
The Sydney Morning Herald
A nine-foot-long great white shark has been spotted in Australia's Lake Macquarie, close to the scene of another recent sighting, along with a smaller, ...