THE TIGER SHARK was four times heavier than the muscular stonemason who was bracing his 190-pound, six-foot body against the shark’s first run. His 16/0 big-game reel gave line grudgingly and his ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. At an undisclosed beach at 5:30 p.m. in New Jersey, shark fisherman AJ Rotondella and two clients wait for beachgoers to leave. Once ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Alan Yu, was originally published by WHYY. At an ...

Within a millisecond, a 500-pound thresher shark shot out of the water, breaking the fishing line. Teenage Boy Scouts began screaming. The Massachusetts captain didn’t “know what to think” or “what to ...

Despite widespread legislation and fishing regulations aimed at reducing wasteful shark finning practices, global shark fishing mortality is still on the rise, researchers report. The findings suggest ...

Are you one of those fishermen chasing social media clout by landing a great white shark? Well, Bay State marine officials are sending a message: They have added “teeth” to regulations to restrict ...

For the second year in a row, anglers participating in the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo brought in an apparent state record shark. In the 2023 rodeo it was a 1,019-lb. tiger shark that broke a ...

Lennox Zielke, 15, and 16-year-old Dante Gregorkiewitz used a drone to set their bait of mullet heads in the Port Douglas inlet as hundreds of locals and visitors relaxed in Rex Smeal Park to watch ...