A conservation effort in eastern Indonesia helped reduce thresher shark catches by 91% among participating fishers by providing alternative income opportunities, according to a recent study.

Small sharks and several threatened species were the most likely to die after being caught. These included thresher sharks and hammerheads. Mortality was also higher for smaller species, those that ...

a longfin mako shark and two thresher sharks, the OCA said. The data from the megamouth sharks were especially valuable, as there have been fewer than 300 reported sightings or catches of the species ...

Great white sharks are very uncommon in the waters surrounding Penida Island in Indonesia, with other shark species like the ...

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These sharks are often seen in large schools around Hawaii, especially near the islands’ underwater volcanic structures. Thresher shark in profile, showing extremely long tail. Image by bearacreative ...

Small sharks and several threatened species were the most likely to die after being caught. These included thresher sharks and hammerheads. Mortality was also higher for smaller species, those that ...

2019; Dharmadi, 2015; Eriksson et al., 2019; Jaiteh et al., 2017; Techera and Klein, 2011). Pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus), herein “pelagic threshers,” are among the species most ...

(Photo by David Clode on Unsplash) Hammerhead sharks were especially vulnerable, with an average of 56.1% dying during capture. Thresher sharks, mako sharks, and sand tiger sharks also suffered high ...

A Cape Fur Seal was observed hunting and preying on a Thresher Shark near the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. A remarkable display of nature’s unpredictability. This unusual event was witnessed by a ...

Li with the great white shark on the line. Photo by Capt. Tim Hagerich “Right now, I’m going all over the globe trying to catch a thresher shark,” said Li. “This was actually my first time to ...