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Are sharks being attacked by killer whales off Cape Town’s coast?

2019/03/05 SharkNewz

Large, predatory sharks occupy the top of ocean food chains, where they play important roles in maintaining diverse and healthy ecosystems. The loss of these predators can therefore have significant impacts on ecosystems. Morne Hardenberg/Shark Explorers By Alison Kock, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity and Tamlyn Engelbrecht, University of Cape Town Sevengill sharks For a long time broadnose sevengill […]

New Zealand bans shark cage diving

2018/09/20 SharkNewz

AUCKLAND (NEW ZEALAND)- The Court of Appeal of New Zealand has ruled shark cage diving is an offence under the Wildlife Act, a move being welcomed by paua divers. Divers and tourists are less happy. With the ruling ends a long legal battle between paua (abalone) divers from Stewart Island and shark dive operators. Shark cage diving Shark diving began near […]

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In search of great whites in Canadian waters

2018/09/13 SharkNewz

HALIFAX (CANADA)-Great whites in Canada? Yeah for sure. Research group Ocearch is starting a research expedition next week in Nova Scotia, the east coast province of Canada. The researchers are looking for name suggestions for the sharks they find lurking in these cold waters. Ocearch is famous for tagging and tracking the great-white-darling Hilton’s visits to Nova Scotia recently. Great […]

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New large shark species heading for the UK? That’s no cause for panic

2018/09/11 SharkNewz

SOUTHAMPTON (UK)- The climate is changing – and so are our seas. Warming sea temperatures have resulted in British cod moving north, benefiting Iceland. The English Channel has warmed during the last half century and the grey Atlantic triggerfish is now a year-round, rather than just a summer, resident in the waters off Cornwall and Dorset. Along the south coast […]

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Great whites and basking sharks New Zealand near threatened

2018/07/03 SharkNewz

AUCKLAND (New Zealand)- The New Zealand government has listed two species of shark in its waters as ‘near threatened’: great whites and basking sharks. This is a negative shift from their previous “at risk” status in the last conservation report published in 2005. The report, called The New Zealand Threat Classification System, updates the conservation status of 113 species or […]

Great white spotted off Spanish coast

2018/06/29 SharkNewz

MALLORCA (SPAIN)- Exciting news from the Mediterranean. Marine biologists have photographed a great white shark in Spanish waters off Cabrera, an uninhabited island and nature reserve 11 miles south of Mallorca. The team of scientists spotted the great white (Carcharodon carcharias), a very rare species in the Mediterranean, for what they say to be the first time in three decades. Actually in 2015 a great […]

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Why do Pacific great whites migrate to the ‘Cafe Zone’?

2018/04/26 SharkNewz

HONOLULU (HAWAII)- Every year great white sharks of the Pacific migrate to a remote area of the Pacific Ocean. Where this is exactly remained a mystery for long. Scientists took off from Honolulu last week on a mission to investigate just what the great whites are doing during their spring break in these waters. The answers could help protect the region. Why do […]

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