Sharks

Shark Fishing "Shark fishing is like watching the grass grow". That was the comment from a great mate that worked on my boat last yeat. Thanks to Doug S. for the great quote! By the way, if you're looking for shark charter info, I have a complete page available including tournament dates and rates. Well, it's a lot more fun than watching the grass grow, but there are times when the process is a slow one. So, I like to say that shark fishing is a lot like, well, fishing. Like any other type of fishing, there are good days and bad ones. Shark Fishing When to fish for sharks? It just so happens that June water temps usually climb to a point that these toothy predators begin to inhabit our waters in Montauk. It's always a good idea to watch water temperatures closely before you go shark fishing. In the early days of the season, look for warm water temperature breaks. When summer kicks in heavy, look for colder water among the hot, flat offshore waters. If I had the ch...

Shark Dissection Jeffrey B. Graham, Physiologist Marine Biology Research Division Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine. Jeffrey B. Graham is a marine biologist and physiologist at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dr. Graham's research focuses on the evolution, comparative physiology and biology of fish, and he has special interests in fish locomotion, physiology, and respiratory adaptations. Born on Nov. 26, 1941, in Portsmouth, VA, he received a B.A. in zoology in 1964, and an M.S. in biology in 1967, both from San Diego State University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, in 1970. Dr. Graham served on the scientific staff of the Smithsonian Institution and was a professor of zoology at San Diego State University prior to joining Scripps Institution. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and the American Physiological Society, and has published more than 120 scientific papers. D...

Shark Research Founded in 2001, the ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research is dedicated to shark and ray conservation through its scientific research and public education programs. The Centre maintains research equipment and facilities, reference collections of fossil and extant elasmobranch specimens, a scientific library, elasmobranch data bases, and public education materials. The Centre oversees the thesis research of selected graduate students as well as publishes results of its own original research and those resulting from collaboration with students or colleagues in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, co-organizes international scientific conferences, and will begin producing its own series of scientific reports in late 2003. Pictures of Sharks

Shark Lagoon As you cross the wooden bridge over Atlantis Marine World’s Sand Shark Lagoon, look both ways to view a miniature panorama of Long Island – the towering bluffs and rock-strewn beaches of the North Shore on one side, and the rolling dunes and salt marshes of the South Shore on the other. Long Island provides the theme – and virtually everything else – for this dramatic exhibit. In fact, all the fish in this exhibit have been caught locally, typically in either Peconic Bay or Shinnecock Bay. In addition to sand sharks (Carcharias taurus), one of the most abundant sharks on the US Atlantic coast, Sand Shark Lagoon features many fish common to Long Island waters, including striped bass, weakfish, fluke, Northern sea robins, smooth dogfish, and clearnose skate. The exhibit even features the endangered Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus), caught in Shinnecock Bay. Shark Lagoon