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  2. Milk shark - Wikipedia

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    Large numbers of milk sharks are caught commercially and sold as food. The milk shark is harmless to humans because of its small size and teeth. [15] Caught using longlines, gillnets, trawls, and hook-and-line, this shark is marketed fresh or dried and salted for human consumption, and is also used for shark fin soup and fishmeal.

  3. Shark meat - Wikipedia

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    Shark meat is a seafood consisting of the flesh of sharks. Several sharks are fished for human consumption, such as porbeagles, shortfin mako shark, requiem shark, and thresher shark, among others. [1] Shark meat is popular in Asia, where it is often consumed dried, smoked, or salted. [2]

  4. Basking shark - Wikipedia

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    Argos system satellite tagging of 20 basking sharks in 2003 confirmed basking sharks move thousands of kilometres during the summer and winter, seeking the richest zooplankton patches, often along ocean fronts. [7] [31] They shed and renew their gill rakers in an ongoing process, rather than over one short period. [32]

  5. Cookiecutter shark - Wikipedia

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    The cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis), also called the cigar shark, is a species of small squaliform shark in the family Dalatiidae.This shark lives in warm, oceanic waters worldwide, particularly near islands, and has been recorded as deep as 3.7 km (2.3 mi).

  6. Unprecedented ocean heat is changing the way sharks eat ... - AOL

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    Sharks have been made villains in most stories, whether it’s fact or fiction. But as the planet’s climate and oceans rapidly change, these boneless, aquatic, apex predators are also ...

  7. Shark - Wikipedia

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    Shark migration patterns may be even more complex than in birds, with many sharks covering entire ocean basins. Sharks can be highly social, remaining in large schools. Sometimes more than 100 scalloped hammerheads congregate around seamounts and islands, e.g., in the Gulf of California. [39] Cross-species social hierarchies exist.

  8. How sharks benefit the ocean's health, ecosystems - AOL

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    Although sharks have a negative reputation, their presence is hugely beneficial to the health of the world’s oceans and ecosystems. Although sharks have a negative reputation, their presence is ...

  9. In the ocean, 'sharks are around you and you just don't know ...

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    In the last six years, we've even seen the occasional fin pass by in the ocean and played in shallow waters where we've had to take pause while a herd of nurse sharks passed by (unnerving, yes ...