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Oliver Edwards | Published on 6/3/2022



Celebrate the Ocean With Sharks!

Join uscelebratingsharks and the oceans on World Oceans Day, and help work together to protect biodiversity! This year Shark Stewards is working in personand online with hundreds of volunteers cleaning beaches and underwater habitat, while educating the world about the need to restore and protect the oceans we love, and rely upon.In anticipation ofCapitol Hill Ocean Weekin WashingtonDC, we are helping motivate Congress to support two congressional bills to protect sharks, and two proposed National Marine Sanctuaries by connecting to our online comments and petitions.
Join in with your supportwherever you live, and share your love of sharks and all ocean life.


New Study:White Sharks Competitors, Not Children of Megalodon
A new studypublished in the journal Nature Communicationssuggests great white sharks coexisted and even competedwith the giant megalodon, and may even have contributed to the extinction of the largest shark known to exist.
Over one third of shark species are threatened with extinction largely due to overfishing. If we do not act now, many modern-day sharks will follow the megalodon, and in a far shorter time span.



Shark Watch CA, Sevengill Data Dive!
Our first 2022 community science dive in the La Jolla Cove State Marine Reserve documenting sevengill sharks was a success! In murky conditions, science team member Sage Wolfe photographed a six foot male. This project, started byOcean Sanctuariesand Shark Stewards board member Michael Bear in 2010, has identified over 30 individuals in San Diego.

We are asking divers to submit their images to be run through the algorithm for easier identification, and to participatein theSevengill Shark Socio-economic Survey.
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