(This editorial appears in the May 2014 issue of Sport Fishing.)All those teeth and bad reputation notwithstanding, some sharks aren’t all that tough. In fact, in terms of how they hold up after a battle at the end of a line, some are downright wimps. That is, in part, the finding of a new study with the hefty title of “Physiological stress response, reflex impairment, and survival of five sympatric shark species following experimental capture and release,” published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, Volume 496. (“Sympatric,” by the way, just means they’re found in the same general waters.) Scientists fought and caught five species of sharks on hook and line using standardized techniques for comparison purposes. While the authors note limitations of this initial study, calling for further research, they did form some interesting ...![Sport Fishing Mag]()
