Sentences with phrase «recovering shark population»

In fact, the increase in the number of juvenile sharks is a positive sign of a recovering shark population.

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While there seem to be many young Greenland sharks around, Nielsen believes many breeding - age sharks were harvested for oil around the time of the second world war, and because of the time it takes them to mature sexually, the population will be recovering for another 100 years.

The porbeagle shark is hunted for its fins, and populations could take decades to recover.

Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.

The seal population off New England has recovered dramatically in the last 10 years or so, and that's probably helped give the white sharks a little extra boost with reliable high quality prey source.

Shark populations — vulnerable to overfishing and unable to reproduce fast enough to recover once depleted — have been the focus of about one hour this week.