Are there many sharks in the Atlantic Ocean?

Yes, but they are becoming endangered. The worst danger to sharks in the oceans is a cruel practice called shark finning - cutting off a shark's fins, then throwing the live shark back into the ocean to die a painful death. All for a few bits of f... read more

Many lurk the temperate and tropical zones of the Atlantic Ocean, much to the trepidation of swimmers, surfers and divers. From as far north as New Brunswick to as far south as Brazil, the Atlantic serves as permanent address for some sharks and as seasonal residence for migratory species. read more

They generally do not live in fresh water, with a few exceptions such as the bull shark and the river shark which can swim both in seawater and freshwater. Sharks are common down to depths of 2,000 metres (7,000 ft), and some live even deeper, but they are almost entirely absent below 3,000 metres (10,000 ft). read more

“There’s this general pattern of where the white sharks are protected, they seem to recover,” said Tobey H. Curtis, one of the authors of the Atlantic study. read more