Australia hunts for killer shark
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Australian police are ordered to hunt and destroy a great white shark which killed a teenage surfer on Thursday.
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A great white shark which killed a teenage surfer should be hunted down and destroyed, officials say. But the dead boy&#39;s father has said he doesn&#39;t want the creature to be killed.
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Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday.
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Sharks will migrate into Antarctic waters if warming continues, threatening unique marine animals, scientists warn.
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A 200-pound mako shark attacked a fisherman on his boat deck, biting him on the leg after the man reeled it in while fishing off Australia's east coast Sunday, an official said.
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A fisherman fueled by vodka caught a  1.3-meter (4-foot) shark and wrestled it onto a jetty on  Australia's south coast, suffering only small tear marks in his  trousers, media reports said on Friday.
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Australian environmentalists urge state and federal authorities to do more to help grey nurse sharks.
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Authorities said Friday they would kill the shark that tore apart a young surfer near a popular south Australian beach as his friends reportedly tried to save him by beating the animal with oars.
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TV personality Steve Irwin's death by stingray may be spurring some fans to maim the fish, ten of which were found killed this week off Australia.
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A great white shark that killed a teenage surfer off the southern Australian city of Adelaide and has been seen stalking city beaches since the attack will be hunted down and destroyed, authorities said on Friday.
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HONOLULU - Federal scientists want permission to kill Galapagos sharks in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in an effort to save the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
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A TEENAGER has escaped from the jaws of a saltwater crocodile while hunting in a remote area of the Northern Territory. The 17-year-old boy was grabbed on the leg and dragged into a billabong by the 2.6m crocodile, before managing to escape.
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The government has unveiled the latest weapon in Australia's battle against poachers who haunt its Antarctic fishing grounds, a high-speed patrol boat equipped with twin .50 calibre machine guns.
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toothfish, dubbed the &quot;white gold&quot; of the sea, which is being driven to extinction by rampant poaching. other threatened species,&quot; the US-based National Environment Trust (NET) said in a report on Thursday.
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MONTAUK, New York  - In this Long Island fishing hamlet, hundreds of adults drank beer and children marveled at the bloodied sharks caught in a fishing contest, including a heart from a gutted 180-pound (82-kg) thresher shark that several children poked with awe.
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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - The father of an Australian teenager ripped in half by a shark while swimming at an Adelaide beach says he opposes plans to kill the creature.
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THREE teenagers watched in horror yesterday as two great white sharks attacked and killed their 18-year-old friend 400m off a popular suburban Adelaide beach.