Friday, August 15, 2014

Weird Sharks #9: Requiem Sharks (In Florida Waters)



This not a specific shark at all, but rather a huge family of sharks that contain many, many sub-orders of sharks.  In those sub-orders, there are some strange ones to be found for sure, but I'm concentrating on this family because so many well known sharks belong to it, many in Floridian waters....and the name Requiem Sharks, just sounds to ominous not mention it!  Because, how cool is it that the likes of Tigers, Silkies, Lemons, Blues, Bulls and the spooky sounding Night Shark all belong to the family "Requiem"?!


THE FOLLOWING ARE IN THE WATER AROUND FLORIDA:


Conservation Status:  Near Threatened


Conservation Status:  Near Threatened


Conservation Status:  Near Threatened


Conservation Status:  Data Deficient due to deep habitat


Copper Shark AKA Bronze Whaler
Conservation Status:  Near Threatened


Spinner Shark (seen this one a few times)
Conservation Status:  Near Threatened


Silky Shark (Concentrated in FLA waters)
Conservation Status:  Near Threatened


Conservation Status:  Least Concern


Here's the bad boy of them all!  Bull Shark (I've seen many, many of these--I've fished "by" them)
Concentrated in FLA waters
Conservation Status:  Near Threatened


Blacktip Shark (concentrated in FLA waters, in fact they are concentrated in tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world)
Conservation Status:  Near Threatened


Oceanic Whitetip Shark (concentrated in FLA waters, in fact ALL tropical waters of the world, they are a pelagic shark)
Conservation Status:  Vulnerable


Dusky Shark (concentrated in FLA waters and in other tropical and semitropical coastal areas)
Conservation Status:  Vulnerable



Caribbean Reef Shark (Concentrated in FLA waters)
Conservation Status:  Vulnerable


Sandbar Shark (Concentrated in FLA water and elsewhere)
Conservation Status:  Vulnerable


Night Shark (Concentrated in FLA waters and elsewhere)
Conservation Status:  Vulnerable


Lemon Shark (Concentrated in FLA waters)
Conservation Status:  Near Threatened 


Blue Shark  (Concentrated Worldwide, including FLA, in all temperatures of water, except arctic waters)
Conservation status:  Near Threatened


Atlantic Sharpnose Shark (Concentrated in FLA waters and all up and down the east coast and Mexico)
Conservation status:  Least Concern

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