Sentences with phrase «where shark populations»

The researchers went to Palmyra, a remote atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, where shark populations are healthy, fishing is not allowed and the majority of its near pristine underwater world is rarely dived.

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«Certainly anytime we have a situation like that where there's such overwhelming media attention, it's going to leave a memory in the population,» says George Burgess, curator of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History, who fielded 30 to 40 media calls a day that summer.

Even in California, where monitoring is relatively good, estimates of the white shark population vary by an order of magnitude, from 500 to 5,000.

This engaging narrative describes the annual white shark migration to San Francisco's Farallon Islands, where these skilled predators come to gorge on the abundant seal and sea lion population.

This is often combined with a stop at Shark Ray Alley, where snorkelers can get up close to the large resident population of nurse sharks and stingrays.

FIU scientists have become increasingly concerned about the vulnerable populations of sharks and rays around the world and especially in Belize, where Global FinPrint lead scientist and FIU professor Demian Chapman has worked for nearly two decades on shark conservation.

If you look at the shark attack statistics in California, where a few decades ago they went through a similar phenomenon with the seal populations responding to protection and white shark attacks on seals increasing, there was no similar trend in attacks on humans.»

This strategy can be expanded to other shark species with similarly distinct populations — and that can go a long way in pointing out where laws against shark fishing need to be enacted or better enforced.