Their distinctive pattern of white spots on a dark blue or black background is unique to whale sharks, making them easy to spot in ... They are often caught accidentally as bycatch in fishing nets, ...

as they would likely have a cetacean bycatch in the following sets that could be used as bait. Interviewed gillnet fishers confirmed that dolphins are used as bait when the target fishery is mako and ...

The group of landed sharks is mostly composed of silky sharks (78.73%), followed by the thresher shark group (13.54%), blue shark (4.02%), hammerhead ... the relationship between landings of target ...

The baleen species of cetaceans which have bristles instead of teeth, such as the blue whale, do not use this system. The vaquita’s tragic decline is due to unintentional capture in fishing nets, or ...

I just put my head in my hands and started praying that God wouldn’t take my life and I would live,” Rileigh Decker, 20, said through tears from her hospital bed. “It was very scary.” ...

They didn’t get to six goals, but the Blue Jackets did move into the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference over the Boston Bruins by extending their season-high winning streak to six ...

In Australia, killer whales have been reported preying on various shark species, including blue sharks, porbeagles, and tiger sharks. But of particular interest to PhD student Isabella Reeves are ...

The NSW government is reviewing its shark mitigation program for the 2025-26 summer and beyond. Most coastal councils have voted in favour of their removal because of the high bycatch and evidence ...

Mammoth twelve metre long basking sharks and endangered blue sharks are among the finned fish lurking British shores. Of the dozens of sharks seen swimming in UK beaches, three mimicked the hit ...

They fish with nets-, and don't they catch hammerhead sharks? -Yes, incidentally,” Corrales clarified. The judge of the Court, after studying the bycatch issue carefully stated that“it is ...

Contender, the largest male great white shark tagged by OCEARCH, was tagged off the Florida-Georgia line on January 17. OCEARCH, a non-profit research organization, uses satellite tags attached to ...

As demand for natural ingredients in cosmetics and health products has soared, so too has the pressure on deepwater shark populations. Once considered unwanted bycatch, gulper sharks are now actively ...