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The blacktip reef shark has also been known to become aggressive in the presence of bait, and may pose a threat while attempting to steal the catches of spear fishers. [3] The blacktip reef shark is a normal catch of coastal fisheries, such as those operating off Thailand and India, but is not targeted or considered commercially important. [9]
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Blacktip sharks are one of the most important species to the northwestern Atlantic shark fishery, second only to the sandbar shark (C. plumbeus). The flesh is considered superior to that of the sandbar shark, resulting in the sandbar and other requiem shark species being sold under the name "blacktip shark" in the United States.
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Several Facebook users identified the sharks as blacktip sharks. “ New fear unlocked ,” one Facebook user commented on the video shared by 9 News Queensland, an Australian news outlet.
This article lists several species of reef-associated sharks which are known by the common name reef sharks. In the Indian and Pacific Oceans: Blacktip reef shark; Grey reef shark; Whitetip reef shark; In the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: Galapagos shark; In the Atlantic Ocean: Caribbean reef shark
Waves splashing over the reef at Bathtub Reef Beach at sunrise on Hutchinson Island, Florida. (Photo credit: Diana Robinson Photography/Getty Images) While the odds of being bitten by a shark are ...
Blacktip reef shark, an Indo-Pacific shark; Blacktip sawtail catshark, a West Pacific shark; Blacktip shark, a widely distributed shark; Blacktip tope, an Indo-West Pacific shark; Blacktip trevally, a jack fish; Smooth tooth blacktip shark, a Gulf of Aden shark; Euchloe charlonia, a butterfly sometimes called the blacktip; Blacktips (FXFL), an ...