Could a bull shark survive in Lake Erie?

“There may be one kind of shark that could survive — some of the time — in the Great Lakes,” said Amber Peters, an assistant professor specializing in Marine Ecology in Michigan State University's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. read more

The bull shark is in Lake Michigan. Madison on April 1, 2017 at 6:56 pm said: I live in Michigan and really do not understand why people keep having the fantasy of a Shark swimming up in the lakes. read more

One path a shark could take to Lake Michigan is the St. Lawrence seaway, entering the St. Lawrence River north of New Brunswick, Canada, and swimming through Lake Ontario, The Wellend Canal near Niagara Falls, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and finally into Lake Michigan. read more

Bull sharks are one of a very few of the 375 species of sharks with this physiology-altering ability, and they do it better than any other. Bull sharks have been found in freshwater around the world: thousands of miles up South America’s Amazon, in Central American lakes and as far up the Mississippi as Illinois, according to National Geographic. read more

Bull Sharks have the ability to live, not tolerate, but live in freshwater because of a gland they have called a Rectal Gland, that adjusts the salinity of the sharks body to match that of the water the are in as the gland produces salt in the bull sharks body enabling it to survive in fresh water. read more