The California driftnet fishery is responsible for the annual killing of thousands of innocent seabirds, marine mammals and sharks in California waters and is the only fishery where these harmful nets are still used in the United States.
Read MoreSurfer Survives White Shark Bite, Salmon Creek Higher Risk Region
cated near a rivermouth and haul out for pinnipeds and near the foraging grounds for seals and sealions, Salmon Creek is a hot spot for white shark activity. The unidentified man makes the 5th confirmed white shark encounter at Salmon Creek since scientists began researching these events.
Read MoreSharktober: Celebrating Sharks from California to China & Connecting Cultures for Conservation
Join David McGuire for a lecture hosted by the Marin Scuba Club on Wednesday, October 13 from 7:00 to 8:30pm to learn and discover a new or deeper fascination with sharks. Read more: https://sharkstewards.org/
Read MoreSharktoberfest- Celebrating Sharks and Their Habitat
Join Shark Stewards celbrating our 15th Annual Sharktoberfest with our Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and watch it on YouTube
Read MoreSharktober Great White Shark Science Sheet
Shark Stewards is proud to launch and share our Sharktober white shark science sheet, free to download. Check out our Shark for Kids science book and our other shark science sheets, and check back for new species.
Read MoreSharktober News and Shark Science
This is the period when adult white sharks return to the west coast after a two thousand mile migration from the white shark cafe in the central Pacific. It is a period of maximum probability to see or encounter a white shark along the west coast California coast. It is also a time when Shark Stewards celebrates sharks and hosts Sharktoberfest celebrations in California and virtually, and motivates the public to embrace their importance and help protect endangered sharks and rays from extinction. Join us at one of our events, and download our new Shark Science Sheet to learn more about white sharks!
Read MoreeBay Trades in Endangered Shark and Ray Body Parts
Currently eBay allows for vendors to claim or require buyers have CITES permitting without verification, thereby condoning traffic of body parts of protected wildlife. We call on eBay to strengthen and enforce its wildlife policy to block all sales of endangered and protected species including jaws, rostra and shark fin products.
Read MoreEmbarking on Green Careers
The partnership with Shark Stewards and UC Berkeley’s Fung Fellowship was fruitful. Founder and Director David McGuire challenged students to develop a better way to coalesce data on California shark sightings, in part to create a rapidly shareable public response and education system that could aid scientific study as well as help minimize the risk of human-shark encounters
Read MoreImportance of Saving Marine Megafauna to Health of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Scientists Forecast Dire Consequences for Marine Ecosystems at Current Trends of Extinction, Loss of Sharks Have Greatest Consequence An international team of researchers examined the roles of marine megafauna species […]
Read MoreJourney to the Devils Teeth: Sharktober One
The humpback whales put on a spectacular show with breaches and lunge feeding galore. Among the abundant forage fish we saw many seals and sealions, puffins, shearwaters, petrels and at least one albatross.
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