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Dead Sharks Washing Ashore in Florida Puzzles Researchers

04/23/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

By Summer Smith – “MANATEE COUNTY — A mystery is brewing on Manatee County’s beautiful beaches — researchers are trying to figure out why sharks are washing ashore dead.

Recently more than a dozen dead sharks were found on the north ends of Longboat Key and Anna Maria Island.

‘There were no real indicators of what went wrong with them,’ Dr. Nick Whitney, Staff Scientist for the Center for Shark Research at MOTE Marine Laboratory said. ‘There are no obvious signs of damage from fishing or net damage or anything like that.’

The species of sharks found were bonnetheads, blacknose and sharpnose.” Read more.

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