Fishermen in Pakistan reel in massive 40-foot whale shark and sell it for $18,750

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/fishermen-pakistan-reel-massive-40-foot-whale-shark-sell-18-750-article-1.1018907

7 February 2012

Fishermen in Pakistan reeled in a massive 40-foot whale shark Tuesday and sold it for a tidy $18,750, The Express Tribune newspaper reports. The largest confirmed whale shark on record was 41 feet long, according to ABCNews.com
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Fishos catch whale shark on video

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2012/01/13/297281_news.html

13 January 2012

Kelso’s Neil Cuffe and sons Ryan, 23, and Lachlan, 20, had perfect conditions for viewing the 5.2m whale shark at Slasher’s Reef, off Townsville, last Friday.

Lone shark in the desert sets record for most virgin births

http://www.examiner.com/pets-in-hartford/lone-shark-the-desert-sets-record-for-most-virgin-births

13 January 2012

She may be confined to a restaurant aquarium in the middle of the desert, and far from any males, but a female zebra shark “Zebedee”, has experienced “four straight years of ‘virgin’, births, a feat never documented before,” according to marine biologist David Robinson.

Anger and tears as protected baby great white shark blugeoned to death at Sussex Inlet in front of children

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/anger-and-tears-as-protected-baby-great-white-shark-blugeoned-to-death-at-sussex-inlet-in-front-of-children/story-e6frfq80-1226243144251

13 January 2012

FROM the shore, the group of small boats appeared to be doing the right thing – herding a shark that had swum into the long shallow channel back safely out to sea.

Fury of environmentalists as pictures emerge of Rosie O’Donnell with dead hammerhead shark caught on family fishing trip

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085225/Rosie-ODonnell-hot-water-killing-hammerhead-shark-family-fishing-trip.html

12 January 2012

Talk-show host Rosie O’Donnell has enraged environmentalists after being pictured with a dead hammerhead shark caught off the South Florida coast during a family fishing trip.

 

How Do Land Birds End Up In A Tiger Shark’s Belly?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/12/145124536/how-do-land-birds-end-up-in-a-tiger-sharks-belly

12 January 2012

Scientists are facing a riddle. For two years, researchers at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama have been studying the diets of Tiger Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico and they found that the sharks not only eat sea creatures…

Editorial: A whale of a difference

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/opinion/2012/01/11/editorial-whale-difference-199883

11 January 2012

ONE of the more colorful interpretations of the new tourism promotion slogan for the Philippines shows a diver swimming behind a whale shark, with this slogan: “Chasing tail. More fun in the Philippines.”