Tips for Shark Identification
Table of Contents
- Guy Harvey Shark T Shirts
- Featured Shark Apparel
- A Great White Shark
- About Great Sharks
- Shark DVDs
- Shark Links
- Bull Sharks!
- Sharks on eBay
- Sand Tigers!
- A Whale Shark
- Sandbar Sharks
- Shark Identification by Color
- Nurse Sharks
- Rhode Island Sea Grant Shark Identification Placards
- Spiny Dogfish
- Sharks Amazon Plexo
- Shark Links
- Shark Finning Prohibition Act of 2000
- Saltwater Fish Lenses
- Field Guides of Saltwater Fish
- Shark News
- Saltwater Fishing Lenses
- Great White Shark Print
- Great White Sharks Art
- Great White Sharks Poster
- Shark Calendar
- Shark Feedback
Guy Harvey Shark T Shirts
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Featured Shark Apparel
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A Great White Shark
About Great Sharks
Great white sharks are identified by their triangular shaped head (when viewed from above), black eyes, outward facing teeth, and immense size. Great whites are gray above with a white underside.
Shark DVDs
Shark Week: 20th Anniversary Collection
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Shark Week: Ocean of Fear
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Sharks - Deluxe Box Set
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Discovery Channel Shark DVD Set
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Island of the Great White Shark
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Search for the Great Sharks
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Shark Links
- Worldwide Charter Boat and Guide Directory
- Find the perfect charter or guide to see sharks close up!
- Pelagic and Ridgeback Shark Identification Placard
- This shark identification placard from Rhode Island Sea Grant shows images of large pelagic and ridgebacked sharks.
- Non- ridgeback Shark Identification Placard
- This shark identification placard from Rhode Island Sea Grant shows images of non-ridgeback sharks.
- Shark T-Shirts
- This online store offers a selection of shark t shirts, sweatshirts, stickers, buttons, posters, prints, calendars, coffee cups and other gifts.
Bull Sharks!
Notice the stout body, blunt head, large dorsal fin and arched back of the bull shark Sharks on eBay
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Sand Tigers!
Sand tiger sharks are fairly easy to recognise. Look for the brown color, teeth that hang down and notice how the pectoral, dorsal and caudal fins are roughly the same size and shape. Also notice the distinctive shaped tail. 
A Whale Shark
Sandbar Sharks
Sandbar Sharks are common along the USA east coast. Their color varies from gray to brown. They are commonly 3-4 feet in length in inshore estuaries and are often caught in the open ocean in the 5-6 foot range.Credit: Illustration by Diane Rome Peebles
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)
Shark Identification by Color
When identifying sharks in the field, one of the first charactoristics to notice is color.Is it blue? silver-gray? brownish? brownish-tan? spotted? solid? striped? mottled?
Along the USA Atlantic coast, sharks with blue coloration are usally either blue sharks or mako sharks. The 2 fish share some common traits, but have easily distinguishable features.
Mako sharks can be easily identified by looking for the snout that is pointed and appears triangluar from above, the black eye and tail fin lobes that are near equal lengths.
Nurse Sharks
Nurse sharks have the disctintive catlike face, whiskers, small eyes and fins. Nurse sharks tend to lie on the bottom motionless for long periods of time. Rhode Island Sea Grant Shark Identification Placards
This placard provides information on the shark species that can be legally retained by recreational anglers in federal waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea.
Please note that recreational vessels must possess a valid Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Angling or HMS Charter/Headboat permit to fish for sharks.
Additionally, federally permitted recreational vessels must comply with federal HMS regulations, regardless of where they are fishing unless a state has more restrictive regulations. In that case, the fishermen must follow the more restrictive regulations.
For more information see the Atlantic HMS website at:
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/
or contact the HMS Management Division at (301)713-2347 (phone) or (301)713-1917 (fax)
Download pdf versions of the placards directly here:
http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/bookstore/sharkplacard1.pdf
http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/bookstore/sharkplacard2.pdf
Spiny Dogfish
The spiny dogfish is a small, slender shark with a flattened head and a snout that tapers to a blunt tip. Like the smooth dogfish, its mouth is full of low, flat, grinding teeth, but it also possesses an extra set of teeth that are small, yet very sharp.Although spiny dogfish and smooth dogfish are around the same size on the average (about 3 feet long, 7-10 pounds), the spiny dogfish has two distinguishing features: rows of small white dots run along its slate-gray sides, and a sharp spine is found in front of each of its two dorsal fins.
Sharks Amazon Plexo
Bluewater Gold Rush/The Odyssey of a California Sea Urchin Diver by Tom Kendrick
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Shark Links
Fresh Seafood
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Commercial Fishing
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Fish Identification
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Fish Length Weight Estimates
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Shark Finning Prohibition Act of 2000
(I) to remove any of the fins of a shark (including the tail) and discard the carcass of the shark at sea;
(II) to have custody, control, or possession of any such fin aboard a fishing vessel without the corresponding carcass; or
(III) to land any such fin without the corresponding carcass."
The Act established a rebuttable presumption that any shark fins landed from a fishing vessel or found on board a fishing vessel were taken, held, or landed in violation of the aforementioned subsection if the total weight of shark fins landed or found on board exceeds 5 percent of the total weight of shark carcasses landed or found on board.
The Act also required the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to issue regulations to implement the Act.
Saltwater Fish Lenses
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White Marlin
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White marlin are one of the most exciting billfish.
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Blue Marlin
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This lens has information on blue marlin.
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Swordfish
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This page has information on swordfish as well as recreational and commercial fishing for these popular fish.
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Dogfish
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This lens has information on a species of small shark called dogfish, horndogs or spiny dogfish. Dogfish are small sharks. In much of their range, they are plentiful, with schools sometimes being enormous.
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Tuna
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This page has information on tuna including Bluefin, Yellowfin, Bigeye, Skipjack, Longfin Albacore and other species
Field Guides of Saltwater Fish
McClane's Field Guide to Saltwater Fishes of North America by A. J. McClane
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Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico: A Field Guide by Glenn R. Parsons
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Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish by Ken Schultz
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Shark News
All of these documents can be found on the HMS Management Division's website at: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/
Complete applications are due on the December 3, 2008.
Saltwater Fishing Lenses
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Saltwater Fly Fishing
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This page features saltwater fly fishing information.
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Take a Kid Fishing
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This lens is about kids and fishing!
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Flounder Fishing
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This page is about fishing for, catching, cleaning and cooking summer flounder, also known as fluke. The page also features brief descriptions of other Atlantic Coast flatfish. Flounder are popular from New England Southward.
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Saltwater Fishing
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This page has basic information on saltwater fishing. Recreational fishing is the most popular outdoor activity in the USA and much of that is done in saltwater. Saltwater fishing has many forms with something for nearly everyon...
Great White Shark Print
Great White Sharks Art
Great White Sharks Poster
Shark Calendar
Shark Feedback
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- lisadh lisadh Sep 23, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
- I saw a leopard shark once while diving. It was beautiful, but did make my heart skip a beat.
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Aug 9, 2008 @ 7:29 am
- Great lens. Sharks are one of the most feared predators of the sea. The fascinate us as much as they frighten us.
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