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Old 12-01-2013, 04:27 AM
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From: KRISTA SIMPSON via http://www.tcpalm.com/

An update on the migration from the Sunsentinel. I believe this is the southerly migration of spinner sharks which precedes the more well publicized northerly movement in the spring. The article doesn't discuss larger sharks such as bulls, tigers and hammerheads which escort the migration which reportedly were responsible for Steve Schafer's fatal accident while kiteboarding off Stuart, FL in the spring migration of 2010..



From: http://www.wptv.com/


"By David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel
November 30, 2013

Thousands of blacktip and spinner sharks will swim into South Florida in the next few weeks in an annual migration that yields spectacular aerial videos and occasional beach closures."

"The sharks swim as far south as southern Broward or northern Miami-Dade County, said Stephen Kajiura, associate professor of biology at FAU, who has studied the migration. They head north in March, reaching as far as North Carolina.

Scientists say the danger to people is low, despite scary aerial videos that show vast swarms of sharks within yards of clueless swimmers. Blacktips and spinners, which typically reach lengths of five or six feet, eat mullet, grouper, snook and other fish, nothing as large as a human being."

More at:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/pal...,3721824.story


More about the migration from http://www.tcpalm.com at :
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2013/oct/...t/?partner=RSS



From: Spinner off Juno Pier, Photo: Nadja Neptune via http://www.wptv.com/

Channel 5 has an article on how to tell the difference between spinner and blacktip sharks, both which can be present in quantity during the migration. They reported that the spinner shark has a black tip on the corner of their pectoral fin while ironically, blacktip sharks do not. More at: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/sports/recre...the-difference

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