Man finds 36 dead sharks on Hawaii beach

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060525/ap_on_sc/dead_sharks;_ylt=AiWvoUlbsvr5mQPRXXOq8aFxieAA;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NmhocGZ1BHNlYwMxNzAw

KAHALUU, Hawaii - Three dozen dead hammerhead sharks were found yesterday washed up on the shore of Kaneohe Bay.

Marine Mammal Response Coordinator David Schofield says the sharks appeared to be juvenile hammerheads.

He says he took a couple of the dead sharks as samples and will turn them over to shark experts today.

Eighteen-year-old Terrance Ghoston found the sharks when his dog brought one of them to shore and tried to eat it.

He later stumbled upon the rest of the sharks, which were grouped in a 30 to 40-yard area behind his home.

Naval sonar? Global warming? No food? Contaminants in the sea? It's definitely a sign that the sea is in trouble.

Big SHIT. These guys survive for so long and now ..... geee

One was small enough for the dog to carry.

They were about a foot or so long according to this article.

From the picture, I would think they were newborns.

BARRY MARKOWITZ / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-BULLETIN
Terrance Ghoston, 18, of Kahaluu, examined some of the more than 36 hammerhead sharks found dead on the beach fronting his home in Kahaluu last night.

In Hawaii you can now go out by boat ... they put you into a cage and then they chum for sharks so you can have the experience of "diving" with sharks ... you are inside of a cage with metal bars ...

Maybe the food they are chumming with was contaminated ... and made the sharks ill ... just a guess ...

http://www.hawaiisharkadventure.com/

Sorry these creatures died...but this might trump the missing blonde in the Carribean on MSNBC tonight.

It's good to laugh - I was worrying about this news (more bad news) and appreciated the chuckle!

fished: 14 some feet.
Kill, kill, kill.
:mad:

Recently my husband and I were vacationing in HAWAII and did the shark "dive" ...
WE did NOT like the looks or the smell of the chum they were using ... we were discussing how unnatural and cruel this behavior was ... exploiting the sharks for profit and possibly making them ill in the process ...

We were not the only ones on the boat who felt they did NOT treat the sharks well ... most of the sharks were small ones and not unlike the ones pictured that died ...

I doubt anything would hurt the LARGE ones in the same way ...

...It's definitely a sign that the sea is in trouble.

Right. Sharks are supposed to be so biologically perfect that they were studied as a possible cancer treatment!

While working in an construction engineering department, I was printing out digital photos that an engineer had taken at a potential site. One of the photo files was named RAT. I figured it was an acronym, but when I opened it up, it was indeed a photo of a dead rat by a stream. I asked the engineer why he'd taken the photo, and he said it was because it indicated how polluted the water in the stream must be: "After all, it killed a RAT!"

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rocknation

sorry bad the bad pun but that pretty strange. Gotta run this by my kid, she's my resident shark expert but she's sleeping.

look about the size of newborn hammerheads. I wonder what happened to mom. Maybe she gave birth too close to shore and they got stranded.

My guess is starvation. The earth's magnetic field has been causing 'directional' problems for fish and birds. When the natural world has been used to running on a predictable schedule, a few weeks off in migration habits can spell disaster.

This coincides with an exploration of thousands of tons of chemical weapons dumped on the north side of the island after world war 2. Wonder if they stirred something up? (Just saw that in the local paper two days ago.)

Can you find an online source and post a link? Thanks

lemmings in reverse. just a thought...

Even better? The Disney nature movie about lemmings we saw in school in the 70's? The filmmakers literally THREW the lemmings off of the cliffs... built turntables for them to "follow" one another, etc.

:cry:

An estimated 89 per cent of hammerhead sharks and 80 per cent of thresher and white sharks have disappeared from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean in the last 18 years, largely due to bycatch.

http://webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=&aId=14013

One possible explanation for the group of sharks could be that a gill-net fisherman discarded them.

"We don't know for sure if this is what happened but from our experience in the past when we get large numbers of hammerhead pups dying this is generally the cause," said John Naughton, of NOAA fisheries.

Possibly the mother was killed (in a net? by fishermen?) and the young were removed in the process of cleaning the fish but they were too young to survive on their own. I don't know. But it does not necessarily indicate something more sinister. I am a marine biologist and every now and then we will find fish washed up on the beach.