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"Shooting Shark" is a song by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, appearing on the band's ninth album The Revölution by Night. Written by guitarist/vocalist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser with lyrics inspired by a Patti Smith poem, the song features a synthesizer-heavy pop sound mixed with rock elements.
The Port Jackson shark is a nocturnal species which peaks in activity during the late evening hours before midnight and decreases in activity before sunrise. [2] A study showed that captive and wild individuals displayed similar movement patterns and the sharks' movements were affected by time of day, sex, and sex-specific migrational behaviour.
Shark attacks capture a disproportionate share of public attention, given their rarity (cows kill more people annually). Historian of marine science Samantha Muka, of Stevens Institute of ...
From 2014 to 2015, 621 sharks died in Queensland. [43] From 2017 to 2018, 218 sharks were killed, including 75 tiger sharks and 41 bull sharks. [44] From 2001 to 2018, a total of 10,480 sharks died on drum lines in Queensland. [45] In 2015, the following was said about bycatch in Queensland's "shark control" program (which uses drum lines):
Last year there were 57 unprovoked shark bites on humans and experts say these incidents may be increasing due to the impacts of global warming and habitat damage, writes Faiza Saqib
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]
Kinsler says sharks may be an apex predator who have gotten a bad rap on the movie screen, but they "deserve our protection and respect." "Sometimes people think, 'What happens in the ocean ...
The night shark (Carcharhinus signatus) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, found in the temperate and tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean.An inhabitant of the outer continental shelf and upper continental slope, this shark most commonly occurs at depths of 50–600 m (160–1,970 ft) and conducts a diel vertical migration, spending the day in deeper water and moving ...