GUJARAT (INDIA)- Through the SharkNewz Daily I stumbled upon this shocking video on the slaughter of whale sharks off the Indian coast. It is a shortened version of the award-winning film ‘Shores of Silence’. This film moved the government of India into bringing in legislation and banning the killing of theContinue Reading
NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA)- A 51-year-old man has suffered severe puncture wounds after being attacked by a grey nurse shark off the coast of New South Wales. The fisherman was attempting to free three sharks trapped in his net when the animal struck. Saunders has been taken to hospital followingContinue Reading
DE MOND (SOUTH AFRICA)- An angler in the shallow waters at De Mond, outside Struisbaai, was bitten by a ragged-tooth shark, or sand tiger shark, which he caught in a fishing contest. He didn’t get away with catching the shark on the line. It bit him right when a waveContinue Reading
PALM BEACH (USA)- The beaches at Palm Beach, Florida, are closed for swimmers due to a phenomenon that is seen each year: the migration of thousands of sharks along the shorelines. At Midtown Beach local fishermen grabbed their chance to easily catch some big ones from the beach. Luckily, theyContinue Reading
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
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
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