Netflix's latest competition series features teams of divers vying to photograph the most sharks in exotic locations.

While retention bans reduce shark deaths, many species still die from capture injuries or post-release stress, ... Thresher sharks, mako sharks, and sand tiger sharks also suffered high death rates.

Thresher sharks use their long tails to slap or “thrash” or their prey. ... But due to population declines and overfishing, it’s now illegal to harvest many shark species around the world, which means ...

When thresher sharks are overfished, the species is slow to repopulate because they live a long time, mature at an older age, and give birth to only a few young at a time. 3.

A giant 11ft thresher shark was found dead on Par Beach in Cornwall by a dog walker on New Year's ... More Day. On New Year’s Day, the body of a male 4.25m (13.9 feet) thresher shark washed up ...

Thresher sharks "are a popular eating fish," but "like a lot of species, they are declining," said Jon Dodd, executive director of the Atlantic Shark Institute in Wakefield. For Brown, there was ...