Great white shark attacks fisherman's boat in Gulf

[Peter1469]

Many scallops sold arent scallops at all but shark, they look almost identical. If you ever look to buy scallops if they are ALL the same size and mostly the same shape DO NOT buy them they are stamped out of shark meat. Real Sea scallops are very large and all different sizes and shapes.

I like shark better than scallops.

[Common]

don't think you are safe from sharks in fresh water!

The Atlas of North American Freshwater Fishes describes the bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) as an aggressive shark that reaches 10 feet in length and has been known to attack man. Its range extends as far up the Mississippi River as Alton, Illinois.

Read more: http://www.in-fisherman.com/news/sha...#ixzz3PfvBvTpU

Down here if a shark dont git ya in fresh water a gator might

[Common]

It is not good to eat shark meat because they contain a high level of mercury and in time it can affect your body.

Thats true andrew and also true of other fish as well

[PolWatch]

It's only a real problem if you eat LARGE fish. It takes time for the mercury to build up in fish. Smaller fish are usually ok.

[Captain Obvious]

I swim in the ocean every year, east coast. Caught sharks off that coast too, a 6' hammerhead once. I think you're more likely to get shot in the face by Dick Cheney than killed by a shark there.

Was swimming in the gulf coast a few summers ago with my son when a whole school of fish hurled themselves out of the water right onto us, I grabbed him and got the $#@! out pronto. Stayed out a while too.

[Private Pickle]

I swim in the ocean every year, east coast. Caught sharks off that coast too, a 6' hammerhead once. I think you're more likely to get shot in the face by Dick Cheney than killed by a shark there.

Was swimming in the gulf coast a few summers ago with my son when a whole school of fish hurled themselves out of the water right onto us, I grabbed him and got the $#@! out pronto. Stayed out a while too.

Great Whites are moving south along the pacific coast. Small ones 8-12 feet have been caught off the coast of L.A.

[waltky]

Starfish making a comeback on US west coast...

Starfish making a comeback on US west coast after illness killed millions
Thu, Dec 28, 2017 - Starfish are making a comeback on the US’ west coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them.

Between 2013 and 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars from British Columbia to Mexico. The starfish would develop lesions and then disintegrate, their arms turning into blobs of goo. The cause is unclear, but researchers said it might be a virus. However, the species is rebounding. Sea stars are being spotted in southern California tide pools and elsewhere, the Orange County Register said on Tuesday. “They are coming back, big time,” Cabrillo Marine Aquarium aquarist Darryl Deleske said. “It’s a huge difference,” Deleske said. “A couple of years ago, you wouldn’t find any. I dove all the way as far as Canada, specifically looking for sea stars and found not a single one.”

Similar die-offs of starfish on the west coast were reported in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, but the latest outbreak was far larger and more widespread, a report by researchers at the University of Santa Cruz said. Beginning with ochre stars off Washington state, the disease spread, killing off mottled stars, leather stars, sunflower stars, rainbows and six-armed stars. It hit southern California by December 2013. “When it did [arrive], you just started to see them melt everywhere,” Deleske said. “You’d see an arm here, an arm there.”

The recovery has been promising. Four adult sea stars, each about 20cm long, were spotted this month at Crystal Cove State Park in Newport Beach. “It’s a treasure we always hope to find,” Crystal Cove Conservancy education coordinator Kaitlin Magliano said. “We lost all of them,” she said. “It’s good to see we have some surviving and thriving. Maybe the next generation will be more resilient.” The stars are not out of danger yet. The wasting syndrome never completely disappeared in northern and central California and it has reappeared in the Salish Sea region of Washington state, a report by the University of Santa Cruz said last month.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../28/2003684799