It was identified as a 5-foot, 5-inch sandbar shark, a species known “to make seasonal movements between nursery grounds and offshore areas based on time of year,” according to NOAA Fisheries ...
Number of species: There are well over 350 known ... Longest time span between tagging and recapture of a shark: Two sandbar sharks were tagged in the same week in 1965 and were recovered within ...
Officials from the DEC searched his home and found the sandbar sharks, a protected species under New York state law. They also discovered two dead leopard sharks, one dead hammerhead shark ...