Rare juvenile sixgill shark sighting off Vancouver is good news for population

By Laura Kane / The Canadian Press
Population was thought to have been reduced significantly by an experimental fishery in the 1990s

A rare encounter with several juvenile bluntnose sixgill sharks in waters off Vancouver implies the population may be larger than previously thought, said a marine biologist. Chris Harvey-Clark of Dalhousie University was part of a team of researchers who used a small submarine to explore the waters about a kilometre off the coast and about 100 metres below the surface.…

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June 30, 2019

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