The federal government is shutting down fishing of a popular species of shark to try to give the animals a chance to recover from population decline. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Dock Totals 7/13 – 7/19: 4596 anglers aboard 187 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 30 barracuda, 2696 bluefin tuna (to 220 pounds), 31 bonito, 3 cabezon, 804 ...

The short fin mako is one of the most mysterious fish in the ocean. Research is hard to find on these type of sharks, which makes the new research by Harte Research Institute’s Center for Sportfish ...

It's a fish tale you have to see to believe. A mako shark jumped onto a fishing boat off the coast of Maine and the whole thing was caught on camera. David Sinclair runs Sea Ventures Charters out of ...

George Schelling's painting "Frenzy" portrays the power of a mako shark hitting a bluefin tuna. From the collection of David Gutschmit. This story, “Mako!” appeared in the March 1978 issue of Outdoor ...

Nations have agreed to effectively ban the fishing of endangered shortfin mako sharks in the North Atlantic from 2022 to 2023. Conservationists say the retention ban — which means fishers will not be ...

The shortfin mako shark — one of the fastest sharks in the sea, and one of the most overfished — will have better days ahead thanks to a Nov. 23 decision made by the world's leading international ...

A little before midnight on July 21 the Jenny Lee charter boat got a visit from the largest shark the boat's two captains have ever seen in their lifetime of fishing. A shark so powerful it broke a ...