The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?

The species is abundant within the protected archipelago but when they migrate outside the marine reserve to give birth they run the gauntlet of industrial fishing ...
Science Friday

Fishing For—And Saving—Sharks off the Jersey Shore

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Alan Yu, was originally published by WHYY. At an ...
MassLive

‘It’s like a dinosaur’: What it’s like to be a shark fisherman on Cape Cod

Within a millisecond, a 500-pound thresher shark shot out of the water, breaking the fishing line. Teenage Boy Scouts began screaming. The Massachusetts captain didn’t “know what to think” or “what to ...
Nature

Discovery of a potential open ocean nursery for the endangered shortfin mako shark in a global fishing hotspot

Populations of large pelagic sharks are declining worldwide due to overfishing. Determining the overlap between shark populations and fishing activities is important to inform conservation measures.