Alert for Red Sea sharks
JEDDAH (SAUDI ARABIA)- The numbers of sharks in the Red Sea are rapidly declining. There is too little information on them because of lack of research. Researcher Julia Spät, of the Red Sea Research Centre of the King Abdullah University in Jeddah, conducts a research project about the status ofContinue Reading
Californian great whites endangered
SAN FRANCISCO (USA)- The US state of California moves to place great white sharks on endangered species list. New research, showing only 350 great whites remain in the waters off California and Baja Mexico, led to the unanimous vote of the state Fish and Game Commission to study whether toContinue Reading
Drugs from shark immune systems
ABERDEEN (SCOTLAND)- A research team from the University of Aberdeen has received 1,5 million British Pounds of funds for their work on developing anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs from research based on the immune systems of sharks . Scottish Enterprise and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council awarded the money.Continue Reading
Shark angler punished
WESTERN CAPE (SOUTH AFRICA)- Last week, a man was found guilty of catching and landing a great white shark. The Mossel Bay Magistrate’s Court decided: either twelve months in prison, suspended for five years or 120.000 Rand. The verdict was welcomed by the national Department of agriculture, forestry and fisheriesContinue Reading
VIDEO: Great white attacks boat
MELBOURNE (AUSTRALIA)- Three fishermen off the coast of Australian state Victoria have captured on film the moment a 5m great white shark attacked their tiny fishing boat. The three men were tuna fishing at Cape Nelson, off Portland, near the Victorian and South Australian border, when the huge shark startedContinue Reading
Great whites attacked by dwarf shark
GUADELUPE ISLAND (MEXICO)- Researchers have for the first time found hard evidence that the small cookiecutter sharks go after one of the world’s most fearsome predators, the great white. One of the world’s smallest sharks, they have been known to prey on a wide variety of marine animals, including swordfish,Continue Reading
Sharks scare swimmers in Queensland
CALOUNDRA (AUSTRALIA)- Sharks have stirred some unrest at Australian beaches in Queensland for swimming amongst swimmers. At Bulcock Beach, north of Brisbane, a rare dusky shark was wrestled back into the ocean by a vacationing Welshman. At Macleay Island in Moreton Bay a bull shark somehow managed to get insideContinue Reading