It’s Sharktober! Join Shark Conservationist and Naturalist David McGuire and other wildlife specialists celebrating sharks in a life-changing experience searching the Gulf of the Farallones for whales, wildlife and our finny friends.
Join us exiting beneath the Golden Gate on the US Coast Guard certified vessel AMIGO, for amazing photo and wildlife opportunities and crossing 28 miles across the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary on a modern day Natural History expedition.
Many species of sharks are considered apex predators in the marine ecosystems they inhabit. Apex predators are usually defined in terms of trophic dynamics, meaning that they occupy the highest […]
Learn about shark migration, behavior, and diversity along the California coastline with David McGuire, founder of Shark Stewards, a shark conservation nonprofit dedicated to saving sharks and protecting critical marine habitat.
Join Shark Stewards in our annual Sharktoberfest celebration with free films, costumes and candy and scary shark fun on Halloween at the Sports Basement, Berkeley.
Sharktober is the period when the large adult sharks reappear on our coastline after six months or more of absence. After migrating thousands of miles from the Central Pacific ocean between North America and Hawaii called the “White Shark Cafe”, the mature white sharks return in late summer to their feeding grounds off the Central California coast.
In the Gulf of the Farallones, the most common ecotype is known as the Transients or Biggs Ecotype. The Transients were the group identified in the humpback whale event last month. These orcas eat mammals, but are known to occasionally prey on seabirds, possibly squid, and occasionally even great white sharks too.
Test your shark knowledge for shark week. Join us in Kona for International Shark Awareness Day for a screening of Kahu Manō our new film on Hawaii sharks, culture and traditional conservation.
While children are hunting for plastic eggs and others for salvation on Easter, scientists are searching the depths for new and undescribed sharks, called Rabbitfish, Ghost sharks or Chimaera. This month, scientists published a report of a new species of deepwater “ghost shark” with a huge head one third its body length, and giant, iridescent eyes.
