NYPD drone spots jaws near Rockaway beach
“They’re not right offshore of the beaches, but they can come in pretty close to shore,” fisheries biologist Jon Vander Werff
Meanwhile, seasoned diver John Langlois, owner of Enfield Scuba and Water Sports, also threw water on the danger.“When you look at how many, they get a bad reputation, because as soon as somebody gets bit, it sounds like hundreds of people are getting bit, but they’re not,” he said.400-pound stingray found in Long Island Sound
“The water quality is there for them and the ecosystem has been rebounding from years’ past, where there hasn’t been a lot of sharks,” he said. One species becoming particularly more “abundant” are sand bar sharks, said marine fisheries biologist David Molnar of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.“The water quality is there for them and the ecosystem has been rebounding from years’ past, where there hasn’t been a lot of sharks,” Vander Werff said.“Some of it’s their biology. It takes between one and three years to have pups, and they only have a couple of pups when they do pup,” he said of their “comeback.
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