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December 9, 2006
Arctic Sharks

Arctic Shark photo

Arctic sharks found in Québec by Brian Lin:

The Greenland shark typically inhabits the deep, dark waters between Greenland and the polar ice cap. At over six metres long and weighing up to 2,000 kilograms, it is the largest shark in the North Atlantic and the only shark in the world that lives under Arctic ice. Once heavily harvested for its vitamin A-rich oil — as many as 50,000 were caught annually according to a 1948 estimate — little is known about the animal.

Related: Fishy Future? - Altered Oceans: the Crisis at Sea - Tracking Narwhals in Greenland - Ocean Life - Fossils of Sea Monster - Arctic System on Trajectory to New, Seasonally Ice-Free State

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    “The submersible, which when not at sea is based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, is built to withstand enormous pressure and can dive to depths of 6.5km (four miles).”

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    “Humans, mainly those in countries with a craving for shark-fin soup, have devoured so many of the oceans’ top predators that it has rattled the length of the marine food chain…”

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    “This is the first time fish have been seen actively becoming torpid—a state similar to hibernation in land animals—as part of an annual cycle…”

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