Hundreds of Leopard sharks dying in San Francisco Bay

[Judi Lynn]

Updated 8:19 pm, Saturday, May 6, 2017


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Biologists are trying to figure out why hundreds of leopard sharks are dying in the San Francisco Bay this year.

Researchers tell the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2qcl8Zn) huge numbers of dead sharks have been found since mid-March along the shorelines of Redwood City, Foster City, Alameda, Hayward, Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco.

It is the largest die-off in six years of the striped fish, which is the bay's most abundant shark.

Pelagic Shark Research Foundation executive director Sean Van Sommeran believes the number of dead and dying sharks in the bay could be in the thousands.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Hundreds-of-Leopard-sharks-dying-in-San-Francisco-11127090.php

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1. They better determine it quick because if it is a toxin or infection involved the possilbe

implications for humans could be a major disaster