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[15] [16] [1] Sharks are known to have sensitive skin, due to the high concentration of electroreceptors distributed across their face and body. For sharks, irritation is a regular occurrence when they spend as much time as they do being cleaned by sharsuckers.
Marine scientists Mike Barron and Dylan Irion created Cape RADD to engage both scientists and citizens in conservation around Cape Town. Now, they’re using AI to help track and protect the ...
The majority of shark nets used are gillnets, which is a wall of netting that hangs in the water and captures the targeted sharks by entanglement. [6] The nets may be as much as 186 metres (610 ft) long, set at a depth of 6 metres (20 ft), have a mesh size of 500 millimetres (20 in) and are designed to catch sharks longer than 2 metres (6.6 ft) in length.
The number of shark attacks, including deadly bites, dropped substantially worldwide in 2024, according to a new report.
In the first 11 months of 2013, 633 sharks were captured in Queensland — more than 95% of those sharks died. [42] From 2013 to 2014, 667 sharks died in Queensland's "shark control" program, including great white sharks and critically endangered grey nurse sharks. [35] From 2014 to 2015, 621 sharks died in Queensland. [43]
2024 was an "exceptionally quiet year" for shark attacks. But the U.S. still led the globe - again. See where the fatal attacks happened.
While shark nets and drum lines share the same purpose, drum lines are more effective at targeting the three sharks that are considered most dangerous to swimmers: the bull shark, tiger shark and great white shark. [80] SMART drumlines can also be used to move sharks, which greatly reduces mortality of sharks and bycatch to less than 2%. [81]
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