Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube Like the intrepid fishermen in “Jaws,” these anglers in Whitianga, New Zealand ...

The shortfin mako shark is on the brink of extinction due to overfishing, yet genetic analysis reveals that Atlantic ...

The situation for shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic Ocean is particularly dire ... Mahmood Shivji from the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center (SOSF-SRC) and Guy Harvey Institute ...

New research reveals that despite decades of overfishing, shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic still have relatively high ...

Shortfin mako sharks are built for speed ... They are a highly valuable shark on the international market, and have declined rapidly due to overfishing ...

Makos in the western North Atlantic are highly migratory ... Parasitic copepods cling to the fin of a shortfin mako. They feed on different parts of the shark’s body, eating everything from ...

“The shortfin mako shark is the world’s fastest-swimming shark ... Overfishing has resulted in steep population declines in the Atlantic Ocean and slightly more moderate declines in the North Pacific ...

So in order to replace that energy they need to eat a lot of food. To ensure a meal, the Mako shark implements certain tactics when hunting. It will often attack and bite off the tail of its prey ...

Among other things, Dodd’s Atlantic Shark Institute deploys 20 anchored ... around a third of them. Like the shortfin mako – I call it the Ferrari of the ocean; it’ll do 45 miles per hour.

LA PAZ, Mexico— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today seeking protection for the shortfin mako shark and warty sea cucumber under Mexico’s Standard NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010, the ...

The situation for shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic Ocean is particularly dire ... He goes on to caution, "Typically, in most of the exploited shark species we study we see pretty low diversity." ...