Wildlife Detectives: Mystery Sharks of Seattle
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2016
- One of the world's largest and most elusive predatory sharks, the sixgill, suddenly appears in Seattle's waters. These creatures typically dwell in darkness several thousands of feet beneath the surface. Little is known about them. What would make them appear in the shallows of Puget Sound? And what does it say about our oceans? Researchers are hunting for answers.
Written, directed and produced by Michael Werner
that crab at the ten min mark has balls of steel
Thomas Hyle
"nyeh! fucka you shark, dis food mine!" -crab
Mines
Crabs dont have balls
LOL, noo kidding. That was HIS fish!!
I grew up in Kent WA and started diving when I was 14 years old along with my father. Their used to be old pictures at Pauls Dock restraint in Redondo of a lot of big sharks caught on line and I amagine they were 6 Gill. I quit diving when I was 65 and had over 5000 dives and can say I only saw 6 gill twice. One time my dive buddies said they saw them at 170 foot so my dad and I went their and went down to 170 foot and turned our lights out for a couple of minutes then turned them back on and their were two of the big shark swimming around us in a circle.I never saw another until I was 65 and I saw about a 6 Foot six gill at Three Tree point but those were the only 2 times we ever saw sharks in over fifty years. After seeing the pictures back in the fiftys I would say they were here many years ago.Malcolm MacGregor
Malcolm mcgregor, I used to live on three tree point right above where you dove to see them, up on the bluff, my brother still lives there. I heard it was a good spot to see the sixgill. The bottom slumped off there in the earthquake in 65, prior to that, it was a gradual bottom extending out a ways. Cool that you saw them there.
Why couldn’t you see without a light at 170ft deep? was this at night?
Ty
Off topic a bit. But I’m from New York unfortunately. Long Island specially. I’ve been to Kent and the entire state of Washington. I spent 9 weeks in WA and came back 6 years later and stayed for 2 weeks. I absolutely loved Kent WA. And prettty much the entire state. But Kent specifically. I can’t explain it but I just loved being there. Aside from all the bullshit that’s been going on in the city and outskirts. I love this state.
I saw one on Redondo
The Seattle Aquarium has a live feed of the sound that is so cool to watch.
This is arguably one of the best videos displaying efforts at shark conservation. Seattle Aquarium is awesome. They deserve great respect for their work to conserve Six Gilled Sharks, along with all of the ocean ecosystems surrounding Washington State.
Seattle Aquarium is definitely on my Bucket List to visit. As well as Seattle in general.
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Crit Robbins was the shits
Seattle aquarium is the weakest aquarium I've been too .go to chicago better.seattle has no sharks in they shit they ain't got shit but otters
Dont forget to check out the forests Sasquatch will be waiting to welcome you with a private tour!
They bear an extremely close resemblance to Greenland Sharks. If that holds true for their life-cycle, you may be looking at an animal that doesn't reach sexual maturity for nearly a century (150 years is the estimate for Greenlands). If that is the case then you may have sharks that are born and spend 40 years in Puget Sound, before swimming out into deep water and spending a further 40 years maturing before returning with the next generation.
It could be pretty easy for something as fleeting as a human to look at that life cycle and see a succession of minor extinctions, where there is actually just a really long delay between generations.
Most sensible comment ive read so far and i totally agree👍
I agree. Very sensible and well thought. It would make a lot of sense.
Makes perfect sense.
About 1980 my wife and I encountered 6 Gills on a dive off the west coast of Vancouver island at about 60 feet. Approximately 8 of them 6 to 8 feet
This excellent documentary was probably filmed 7 yrs ago. It is incredibly well filmed.
I think it’s time to revisit Mystery Sharks of Seattle. I’m grateful for their dedication and would dearly love a follow up!
Just saw my first Sixgill after diving in Seattle for six years. It was magical! 😍🦈
I actually caught one of these guys in '98 or '99 while night fishing for rockfish and crab one night on Hood Canal. I had heard about Six Gills having moved into the area, but I never thought in a million years I'd fish one up. It was a little guy, barely more than a pup, but it was strong as hell. What a thrill to be holding such an ancient and amazing animal. I let him go and hope he got to grow to full size.
They thought the 6 gill was extinct then they were rediscovered so why wouldn't they be protected?
@Emmy MacDonald ua-cam.com/video/pHuvs9Qqa5o/v-deo.html
This one is not adorable and I’m staying far from them
Suddenly appeared? They've always been there. I was dragged down by one in 1979. Fortunately, it only wanted the submarine hatch cover. I was retrieving one off my boat.
Im a retired Alaskan fisherman I respect all wild life and didn't know their gone?
Hope they come back and survive Ive seen so much wild life what a joy they have been to me even the ones that surprised me and scared the crap out of me like walking up on a huge Grizz up North 30 feet away it stood over its kill a Moose it stood up and roared it was as loud as a Concert bass rumbling through your whole body I backed away then ran like never before with Adrenalin pumping I lifted a 30' wood skiff turned around push it back into the water and had the motor running as my friend who was beside me caught up what a nature walk we had that day we had seen tracks on the beach up in the remote areas Clam digging Bears were seen a lot so we gave it a go in one small hole we got more butter Clams to feed a hundred people what a day it was I love Alaska. and the west Coast now in Seattle I remember all the buzz about the Sharks good luck.
I was told bye a diver they were 30' mud sharks? 6 gilll? Crossing the gulf one clear calm day I saw a Bask Shark being attacked bye Porpas pod of 6 or 7 family unit each taking turns hitting it in the gills as we passed bye 25 feet of our port.
Great place to say your a fisherman
brad starkey
When I ran a mountain bike program for kids in Anchorage, I would tell the kids that if they smelled something bad to not stop and keep going. The bad smell meant that a brown bear had a kill nearby and the bear was likely to be protecting the moose (or whatever the kill was). I saw two cubs below Arctic Valley once by myself and it made me very nervous; I had no idea where momma was. Also had one go up a trail I had just come down minutes before; it was up by Hilltop Ski Area in Anchorage. Amazing beasts!
I love the young sixgill eating the food and the crab holding on like, "Give it back!" before letting go. Awesome video though. When I was little sixgills, Greenlands, goblins, and frilled sharks (sevengills) were only shown as drawings in books. From my understanding there weren't any photos of them alive back then. So much has changed and it's awesome to see these animals alive and thriving.
That crab was like
"let gooood, ittzzz miiinnnee",
A big thank you to all these dedicated scientists and divers who constantly work finding out the interesting information about these beautiful, docile, curious sharks. 🤗
Beautiful, informative, fascinating - thank you for making this!
Amazing documentary!! I am fascinated that 6 gills were found and thriving in and near Seattle!!:). This is AMAZING .
It makes me wonder what brought them up from the deep though?? I am only half way through right now BUT, I had to tell you I am loving every minute of it:)💖
A 25-foot basking shark was spotted in Puget Sound near Seattle in 2014
Most likely to have their babies in an area with a higher survival rate for the pups, the Peugeot Sound is rich in food for them. Hopefully they keep coming back.
I grew up in Santa Cruz Calif. A WORLD CLASS WORLD FAMOUS SURFING AREA. When Jaws came out we all thought Great Whites were an East Coast thing. Then we saw photos taken at Steamers Lane from a helicopter and under the surfers were several HUGE sharks swimming slowly around, while being at water level the surfers were oblivious to their presence, at that level looking down from the board you can only see a few feet down, while from farther up you for some reason can see deeper, right next to Steamers Lane is a longtime Santa Cruz landmark, right in front of the lighthouse called SEAL ROCK, dozens of Sea Lions can be seen basking or sleeping there at any given time and are the reason the White sharks are there. Unbeknownst to us, they always were!!!
I've heard that there are a lot of mud sharks in the streets of Seattle.
If the sharks appeared out of nowhere, isn't it safe to assume that they'd leave just as fast? Maybe they all migrate as a group into the nursery grounds, stay there for a few years, and then leave? Or maybe it's just completely random, maybe they just randomly make somewhere their home, stay there for a few years, and then leave when they get bored?
I was born and raised on the Pacific coast. There are times I miss it till I remember the weather. I never once worried about what was in the water when I swam or was in the ocean. We have only just begun exploring our oceans and learning of them. I hope that they stop the fishing of six gilled sharks. Let's learn from them NOT destroy them please. There are too few of them left.
They don't know how many there were or are.
"we were basically looking at a living dinosaur"
birds: are we a fucking joke to you
They suddenly appeared? I think it's more like we suddenly discovered them.
They are a deep water shark. That’s why this is so surprising.
Yeah it makes me sad and I love fishing but I have a brain.
No. We have been diving in Puget Sound for decades upon decades. They just suddenly showed up one summer in the sound, and never left. Today, you can dive there at night and you will see them depending upon where you are diving. In Elliot bay, you will see them every night of the spring and summer.
@@minuscule4336 ,That guy didn't watch the video before he commented. Lol.
Have you seen any in the water ?
I grew up in the Puget Sound area and I love it.
I like how nice and cool it looks. I live in Los Angeles, and even though it's only April, it feels like the middle of August. How I loathe California weather. I'll never understand how anyone could actually be jealous of the weather here, but most people here seem to be, as do a lot of people I've met outside of Cali. Personally, I like it cold (how cold? My user name is frosztbyte xP), so the NW looks *beautiful* to me. Does it snow a lot? I know it rains a lot, and that's good, but if it snowed it'd be even better! =D
It snows now and then, but generally it's just rain. Unless your close to the mountains. At least for us in Oregon. Washington I'm not to sure of.
I live on the water of Puget sound
Ike TheClerk it does snow in Washington, but not too bad west of the mountains tho
Bud Bundy007 same here... been swimming in these waters since I was a kid.... after seeing this.. makes me rethink going into the water here lol
I can’t wait to scuba dive the Puget Sound. So damn excited.
Tiger H. Lore did you do it? Any videos of sharks?
Six gills have been in puget sound for a long time, not the 1990s. That's like saying buffalo appeared on the Plains in the early 1800s because that's when we crossed the US. I geuss that's modern science for ya, if you don't know something make it up.
It was all propaganda to sell global warming, pollution,etc.....
An amazing fish story--and one of few hopeful ones.
That's not really relevant
I'm so glad I live in the Heart of this. It's great to see they haven't completely gone forever
Best part of video, crab refuses to let go of bait and fights shark for it! 10:20
Six Gilled Sharks are really beautiful sharks. They have really amazing eyes & have such an intelligent look in them. You can almost see them thinking.
They're one if my favorites. :)
This is a fantastic video. Great job! I appreciate the laypeople scientists, & the local talent. Certainly one of the better marine conversation efforts. Well done.
LOVED THIS DOCUMENTARY!
Nice video! I love observing earth, discover and decompress...
Had 3 decent sized ones cruise right under me while geoduck diving one night. They were more than a foot longer than me and I'm 6'6" long. So few people believed me that I just stopped talking about it. Everyone said they were "probably sturgeon or dog fish that looked a lot bigger than they actually were"
There's no mistaking being in the company of a shark no matter what the Make or model. Especially when they're bigger than you!
The part on Blondie dying made me so sad.
yeah me too and her kids never got to see the light of day
6 gills are native to this area ive accidentally caugjt like 30 of them but i release sharks
I offloaded a sixgill from a gillnetter at Arrowak Fisheries in Bellingham in 1992. It was a good 10 feet long and many hundreds of pounds. Needless to say, it took several dudes to slide it onto a sling, and we hoisted it up solo. It was a dogfish boat that caught it. It was probably the biggest fish I've ever seen. I've seen the giant sturgeon at Hell's Canyon, and it was bigger than any of them.
But they've been in the area since well before the late '90's. Maybe not in Elliott Bay, but in the inland waters.
One of my theories is that these areas are nurseries where the Sharks grow and mature and then head out to deeper water for breeding.
The other is they come into the shallows to breed and have young and return to the deep leaving the young to mature.
Six gill have always been shallow, cold water species. In New Zealand they are aggressive and have attacked humans on a regular basis. Not near as aggressive as a Bull or Tiger or as damaging as a Great White, they are still an animal who deserved respect and more study. The aggressiveness and pack hunting in the south pacific compared to the complacency and single hunting style is very intriguing. We need more people to study and learn and teach. Just like any being, environment is 90% of attitude and aggressiveness.
yep, thats veal swimming around out there......yum
Thanks for repeating the video and claiming it's your idea..... Good job. You deserve an award, maybe a sticker, or a happy face.
KrisH I think you’re talking about sevengills
You literally just repeated what this documentary ended up telling us. And you knew this how?
I have been snorkeling and diving for many years. I never assumed sharks to be solitary. Once, in the Keys, I watched 2 bull sharks swim past me at amazing speed. They were exactly the same size. I assumed they are siblings. In Corona del Mar, CA, I watched a family of leopard shark "pups" swim in tight circles. At Hol Chan at Ambergris Caye, I watched two large barricuda swim together into the channel, hunting. One had his lower bill torn off. I had great respect for them to recognize his/her eating/hunting handicap, and they appeared to do everything together. They were the same size, and I assumed they were siblings.
Drinking Challenge: Take a shot every time you lose faith in humanity when watching this video.
SealDaBreadLoaf I’d be drunk before I started the video and dead of alcohol poisoning before the end of it.
Wtf do u want from human? We are animals too and need to survive.
ROFL
After you’re plowed...
there are plenty of videos on UA-cam that can help restore your hope & faith in humanity!
Try searching “kids doing good things”-it will perk you right up...
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RAGEEDI, yes we humans are also animals that need to survive, but WE are supposed to be the intellegent ones, we dont have to persecute other species to extinction in order for us to survive, especially ones with no known track record of attacking humans. MOST shark species are not dangerous and will not attack unless fucked with, they would just as soon leave us alone. As for the ones that do attack humans, Bull sharks are the the top aggressors on the list and live all over the planet in shallow waters of all Oceans and can even travel upstream in rivers and live there indefinitly, even mating and giving birth to young, who usually stay in the river systems they were born in most of their lives some never going out to sea. In Central America, in Lake Nicaragua there is a population of Bull Sharks that were cut of from the oceans thousands of years ago and are completely land locked. Bull sharks are very aggressive and eat anything they can catch. but even with that in mind, when you consider how many humans are in the water and the fact that Bull sharks are quite numerous, its amazing that the attack rate isnt much higher, its actually very low when you consider all the facts!
Sharks are my favorite animal, always have been. Stop killing them! :/
Yup
Humans are my favorite animal, always have been. Stop killing them fish:/
Sharks are also very delicious, so I'll keep eating them.
Well the replies here show how the planet doesn't have a chance ......
So many triggered candy ass tree huggers.🖕🏼😂🖕🏼
I grew up on San Juan Island (north Puget Sound) till I was 5. Then moved to West Seattle and spent 90% of my time on the water.
Several years ago I actually caught a six gill off our beach property. I did Not keep it. Hell I couldn't...I was in a 10 ft. boat and it was over 12 ft.
All over the world coral reefs are dying. That means the fish that live around them die. Which means that the sharks have nothing to eat. Sharks are having to look for different food sources, different areas with food. Unfortunately, that is going to bring them into close contact with humans. The sharks are hungry. People are in the water. Do the math.
Protect the reefs.
Sandra Nelson the math indicates that you have no chance of ever being bitten by a shark 🤷🏼♂️ Not to detract from your cause of saving the reefs, but shark attacks aren’t on the rise. More people in the water with more technology and money is what has changed. More people but no increase in bites? Hmm 🤷🏼♂️
You need to let go of your Hollywood fed impression of sharks. They aren't these massive human killing machines like Jaws and other movies have made them out to be. Most sharks are rather docile creatures and they don't have a taste for human.
@@AFellowDoktuh When people are bitten its usually mistaken identity. Unfortunately, the sharks are big enough to do real damage with one " taste ".
The reefs are dying back as the water warms, but the fish are not dying, nor are the mollusks and crustaceans. Therefore the sharks that can avoid the nets are doing fine.
Great Video
As I now have COPD I can no longer dive but this would have been one thing I would love to do as I love hearing about 🦈 Sharks
Gr8 video...Bravo !
WOW! I was a member of the SEATTLE AQUARIUM from 1987 to 2005, I never heard of these Sharks.. I am Impressed.
I was aware of the influx of of divers..
*great video ✅😀*
Loved ure documentary it was awesome xxx
Love this ..im from Seattle..nice to know more about the 6 gill .thank you..
Great show.
Thank you from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺🌏💙
me too, from seattle, now in sydney
This seems very strange to me that they seem to have just been discovering these sixgills in Seattle waters in the late 1990's. I live in Victoria BC CANADA about an hour and a half ferry trip from Puget Sound and Seattle and yet I have dove here since the early 1980's and on numerous dives saw Sixgill sharks. As well remember numerous marine books from the 1970's and 1980's about our Georgia Strait waters and what fish it contained mentioning the Sixgill Shark as a common species with the Spiny Dogfish and Basking Sharks being next most common in our waters around Vancouver Island as well as remeber 2 instances of seeing Sixgills caught by fishermen and brought back to be weighed.....so I don't see how they weren't always around Seattle as well before this late 1990's influx.
This is so amazing ❤❤ i feel so peaceful watching these video i ❤ sea animals😍
Going to that aquarium is expensive, but it's such a COOL aquarium!
It seems like when Blondie Queen of the Sharks died all the Sharks left in sorrow.
why does this documentary make it sound like six gills "moved in" to the puget sound in the 1990s, when its pretty clear they've been all up and down the coastal PNW waters for probably millions of years? other than that, its a stellar documentary.
i was fishing at ruston way in tacoma last night and some guy reeled in a 7 foot six gill. it was really a sight to behold..
Awe, this one made me cry 😔😭
Whoa sharks in the water???? I think sharks swimming around on land would be something to be amazed about.
AJK always needs more info. 😂
You mean the deadly land shark from SNL? "no mamm I'm a dolphin" 🦈 hahaha
Patrick Parr
Damn! I was just about to make the same joke; you beat me to it. Dammit Patrick! 😉
they are so amazing.
Finally, a shark documentary that isn't about great whites or tigers
Seems to me that it makes sense that this type of shark may have a longer time before they are of a proper age for breeding. So they may have a ten-year or fifteen-year cycle after all they can have up to one hundred and five pups at a time, maybe that is why they have so many at one time. Natures way of balancing out maybe?
About octopus. They are such intelligent animals. I hate to see them in captivity. Sometimes in a small glass area with nothing to attract their attention. I think they should be released and new ones take their place every so often.
In Westport, Wa. Had me crying over the poor animal.
I live in Port Angeles, and we have a small aquarium full of local fish and other creatures, and each spring the scientists there find a Giant Pacific octopus for their designated tank. They keep em for about 7 months, then release it back to the exact location they caught it from. Essentially they only keep the octopus until it reaches adulthood.
Smart and sentient, they picked a new nursery.
Amazing truly amazing
Tears of joy flow from my eyes
And I have a fear of water
This video touch my heart and spirit to see such beauty
While I still have some fear of them -- "Jaws" scared me for life I think-- this documentary was fascinating and I liked ending on a hopeful note.
The sixgill is the coolest shark bar-none.
Sharks are fascinating !!!
If I learned anything watching this,
"Octopusses just be fish food."
These sharks have been there forever! Not to mention dogfish/salmon sharks and occasionally great whites. These 4 species are not unusual in the Puget sound! LOL!
There are also other shark species that have been spotted in the Puget sound like basking, thresher and mako I am sure I am missing a couple too!
Sick skills dude
I’m from Seattle, my family founded Seattle actually. So I’m hella from Seattle. I live on the street that bears my name. Anyway the water in the sound is creepy, underneath the waves. So dark. Something else is down there, i can’t describe it. Summer 19 tho let’s hit the water!!!!
No. My family founded Seattle. Attle is my great grandmother and we first went there to see her.
How do these sharks just go missing? I thought they had tagged them, something smells fishy.. or sharky...I dunno but what was the point of all that tagging if they dont even know where they went?
The tags' batteries go dead. Certain tags are also designed to fall out of the animal's flesh after a certain period, so the animal is not permanently injured. So, when the tag approaches the end of its life, and one can't find the funding necessary to catch the fish and re-tag it, one loses track of fish.
Such beautiful gentle giants 💕
Unless you're an octopus
We came across many of these sharks in the kelp forests on the western side of the Western Cape.They were curious but never aggressive.
They were sick of humans messing with them so they found a new place to give birth. lol
Thier soo cute. I love how the sharks smile.
I would bet that they prefer Elliott Bay because of its bathymetry and the abundant food. It would be interesting to study Commencement Bay and the other anchorages of Puget Sound to see if Six Gills hang out there, too. It would be interesting to see if they follow salmon runs anywhere, or if they prefer certain areas that have a mix of food sources, the right depth profile, etc.... I also wonder where the 20-foot-plus adults go to breed.
Nice to see GUE
Those sharks are smart when they realize homans were coming they knew it was time to leave
Now this may sound like a really stupid question to most but I know almost nothing about sharks maybe because I'm deathly afraid of them but Is it possible for, lets say, a 6 gill and a great white to breed? Or any shark to breed with another breed?
Christy Dunlap nah
It's a matter of size, location of sexual reproduction organs, times they'd interact etc etc. Even then they could have sex but wouldn't mean successful reproduction. Humans and gorillas can have sex. However the sperm of gorillas don't have the proper enzymes to enter the human egg cell. Relationship isn't enough to reproduce unless they're very closely related. Chances are the 6 gills would reproduce with other 6 gills but that's about it. No great whites
The correct expression is "interbreed" and the answer is no.
If they are in the same genus - possibly. Rays are shark cousins, and I just found a science paper reporting an oceanic manta X reef manta hybrid.
@@CharlieApples - Glad to find another science-minded person out there. Hopefully nobody is thinking I implied that sharks and rays can interbreed! I found mention of blacktip shark hybrids, but there's too many Sharknado, video game, vacuum cleaner and golf club hits for a quick spin around Google...
I have to write up a summary sequence of research papers on mantas, so I've been watching ocean documentaries. Mantas (and mobulas) are apparently some of the most recently evolved rays, but right now their genus and species designations are up in the air.
This is funny. I was raised in King County and on a Washington ferry from Seattle to Bremerton talking with a guy who argued it was to cold for sharks in Puget sound. I told him back in 1973 the damn things are out there and big but oh no, I was crazy and now we have proof. Same type of shark as in 1973 but about four to five feet, this one is big.
Charismatic Megafauna!!!
Indeed
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Coooooooool!
I will never eat any shark fin soup. If I know shark was killed for it i won't eat it.
Actually they kill sharks for the meat
@@cynthiamena2214 4 days a week, i eat shark meat for breakfast. I am an animal too as scientists once said. I need to survive and of course shark meat is my delicacy.
@Rageefii if you eat shark 4 days a week then that not delicacy
@@cynthiamena2214 what is your definition of a 'delicacy'?
RAGEEDI you do not eat shark meat for breajfast 4 days a week, i doubt youve eaten shark 4 times your entire life. Your just an unhappy miserable person who is full of anger and hate and your just saying bullshit remarks to get people riled up, because your self esteem is so low, by riling people up you make yourself feel better because its probably the only goal you can actually achieve. Grow up you immature ignorant shitty excuse for a human being!
I wonder, is there much difference between 6 gill sharks and greenland sharks, they look very similiar and seem to have similar tendencies, although they do seem to be able to move a little faster.
This was great. But I’m relieved to hear that they do not attack people.
First off, I’m not sure, but I’m happy I got this on my recommended....
BUT IM NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE SPIDER THAT WAS AT THE TOP AS SOON AS I CLICKED IT!!!!!!!
I hope there is a stop in shark fishing.
They have to eat, I imagine they had to escape there own turf to escape that shark fin soup people, you know where...safer here, they can maybe eat with out being netted, defined. GREED, its really bad for everything.
jadie sharp I don't think this is the case here though. The sixgill shark usually lives in deep water, below the 100m line, and the finning industry tends to only go for pelagic and reef sharks, as they require much less effort to catch, a long line is all you need. When sixgill sharks are caught it's usually in nets as a bycatch. Point is they haven't been overfished, so their migration isn't an escape.
Apples Shark fin soup has become popular because the general public no longer sees eating it as taboo. It used to be reserved only for China's very elite. It also ties into Chinese medicine which, while it beggars belief, is bigger than ever. Sharks are highly resistant to diseases such as cancer, and otherwise reasonably people are apparently perfectly willing to believe that a bit of shark will make them equally resistant.
And no, shark populations are not declining as a by product of mass fishing, they're being fished both legally and, at a much greater rate, illegally with longlines. And why wouldn't they be, the tail fin of a whale shark can fetch as much as 10.000 dollars.
In fact there's even a law in Taiwan which states that shark fishing boats must bring in the bodies of the sharks, rather than dumping them into the ocean. This is a pathetic attempt in preventing overfishing, which is not regulated as the Taiwanese finning industry is largely run by the Chinese Triads who are building private ports around the world to prevent regulation.
What does it say? It says our water is as cold as the ocean thousands of feet down lmao, and we have hella life for them to eat, no natural predators really lmao
"There was this bright light, and then these weird creatures... l tried to move, but it was like i had no traction. I felt almost sick when they had me on my back. Then they rammed this hose down my throat! But if you think THAT'S bad, I THINK I've been PROBED TOO"!
No wonder they split!!!
They are so beautiful.
Deep water sharks live in cold water on purpose, as the earths climate changes, so do the oceans currents, some permanent and some temporary. Fish follow water currents (i.e. 'food sources')....like birds follow air currents. I am almost certain that a change in these currents are what brought the 6 gill shark to the sound.
Wow i live down the street from the aquariam and had no clue about the six gill! I have seen very large octopuses in the water just by looking into the peer.... I would take up diving to see a six gill but if there was any chance of a great white being in the sound no thanks!
Truly sad about Blondie and her pups.
Something fishy about that pregnant six gill that “washed up” on shore....
We caught one yesterday by accident. it was beautiful. Of course we cut our line.
Omg! Where were you?
We have these in my backyard! Willapa Bay!
Sea town love
Is there a certain type of forage fish that spawns shallow at a specific season? Or do the sharks themselves breed shallow in the fall?
In the fall there lots of salmon.. These look some what like the Salmon Shark.... Look them up...
I love sharks they have fascinated me since I was young. In fact I love the ocean and I strongly believe that we are seriously depleting resources that are important to sustaining a healthy ecosystem. STOP killing sharks, STOP over fishing!!! However, it's not just the ocean animals that are suffering but many land animals have the same plight! WAKE UP before it's too late.
Those sharks must have been like 'Damn did I just get probed?'