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The great white shark is arguably the world's largest-known extant macropredatory fish, and is one of the primary predators of marine mammals, such as pinnipeds and dolphins. The great white shark is also known to prey upon a variety of other animals, including fish, other sharks, and seabirds. It has only one recorded natural predator, the orca.
Baited drum lines are deployed near popular beaches using hooks designed to catch the vulnerable great white shark, as well as bull and tiger sharks. Large sharks found hooked but still alive are shot and their bodies discarded at sea. [26]
Adult great white sharks are gray on top and white underneath. ... is hugely significant and is at the start of scientists’ understanding of the elusive reproductive cycles of this endangered ...
The World Wildlife Fund reports the world’s great white shark population is at vulnerable status. The largest known predatory fish in the world, great white sharks can weigh upwards of 4,000 to ...
These threatened species occur in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area [1] and are listed as threatened under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (Bonn Convention), CITES (CITES) Agreement, China–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA), Japan–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement or the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List ...
Great white sharks have been observed in Texas waters since the 1950s, as recorded in the 1963 book "Shadows In the Sea: Sharks, Skates & Rays."
Shark research is hard to get funding for, in part, because sharks aren’t a commercial species. Yet the irony is that they affect commercial species, namely fish populations.
From 2013 to 2014, 667 sharks were killed on Queensland's drum lines and in shark nets, including great white sharks and critically endangered grey nurse sharks. [11] From 2014 to 2015, 621 sharks were killed in Queensland. [29]