Sharks and other large fish avoid hunting in the warm waters at the equator and instead prefer to live in more mild conditions
Researchers studied 900 million incidents of sharks attacking fishing line bait. They looked at records from 1960 to 2014 for sharks, tuna, sailfish and marlin. The Bern team found that most predatory fish were found in temperate waters.
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