Shark diving is a popular hobby in the Caribbean, where the animals are easily drawn in by the smell of bait in the water. One group in Florida regularly dives to catalog, observe and coexist with the ...

In the waters off French Polynesia, fishermen lay longlines equipped with multiple hooks in the hopes of catching tuna and swordfish. Tiger sharks, however, are also prone to chomping down on the bait ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Unintentional catch is a major reason that more than a hundred shark species are threatened with extinction. A new study found that creating a ...

For sharks living in the open ocean, longline fishing is the number-one threat, with an estimated 20 million pelagic sharks caught annually by fishers looking for tuna and other desired species. Now, ...