a 14-year-old girl was jammed on the foot Wednesday evening while swimming off Emerald Isle, North Carolina. The teen may have ligament and tendon damage, but she will recover. There is no info on Shark species or no pictures, so instead here are some recently released pictures of a Shark jam that occurred on June 20th in Fernandina Beach, Florida.

Jennifer Cation, explains her injuries.

Yay, injuries!

Yay, more injuries!
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Keep on jamming and we'll keep on posting,

--Sharky

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There have been two well publicized giant Great White sightings over the past week, one in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and another in a lake north of Sydney, Australia--unfortunately they were both just the ravings of two crude, old, and probably drunken men.

On Thursday morning, 60-year-old Michael Lopenzo reported seeing two 22-foot-long Great White sharks lurking off Martha's Vineyard--the same beach that Spielberg shot Jaws. Predictably, this caused quite the panic. Michael Lopenzo, was arrested this morning for disturbing the peace because he was so full of shit. Allegedly, Lopenzo told police that he spotted the Sharks from a fishing boat named Alicia Li which was owned John Kennedy. There is no such boat, and lying about John Kennedy in Martha's Vineyard is a sure fire way to take a wicked pissah of an ass kicking. Lopenzo also gave his address at a homeless shelter.
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This story is even worse: On Wednesday, a fisherman reported catching a 21-foot Great White in a net. He said he cut it loose because his boat was only 18 feet long. The funny thing about this fish story is that the Shark was supposedly sighted in Tuggerah Lake, which is a small brackish water lagoon, with a very small ocean access. Police have declined to identify the fisherman because he is very old and weird and has a natural distrust of the media. It is also probably because he is full of shit. In all likelihood, he caught a Bull Shark in his net, if anything at all, because Bull Sharks regularly wander into brackish and fresh water. Bull Sharks very rarely get longer than 10 feet though.
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Summer just seems to be full of fish tales and bad Shark craziness. When will it end?

Never we hope.

--Sharky

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Behold Aatank!

Oh, it's for real bitches!

Do you like this, y/n?

--Sharky

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Taras Grescoe is Sharky Approved.
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Taras Grescoe has managed to publish a book that matters in a publishing industry full of romance novels, right wing manifestos, self-help, and movie novelizations. He is the author of Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. Most of the seafood sold in North America is either chock full of heavy metals, contributing to the extinction of species, or both.

Bottomfeeder explains it all, showing you wish fisheries are sustainable, which fish are actually still healthy for you, and what you can do and what you can eat to save what is left of our bleeding oceans.

Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. Support The Chum Slick: Buy it from us!

Three of the top offenses--eating Blue Fin Tuna, Atlantic Halibut, and Atlantic Cod. Thank the popularity of sushi for the impending extinction of the Blue Fin, and thank the piss-poor management by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Guess what his number one oceanic offense is? You guessed it--eating Shark!

Click here for more on Sean.

North Americans fly off the handle when they see that they eat endangered Tigers in China, or endangered Gorillas in the Congo, but don't seem to see any problem with taking down a few Tuna Rolls at their local sushi joint. IT IS THE SAME THING.

--Sharky

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We don't really endorse John West canned Salmon or any other mainstream commercial seafood product, but we sure as hell have to give credit where credit is due. Good Commercial, lads.

Thanks to Giant Clam for the heads up,

--Sharky

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There is still some debate as to whether a Shark jammed 17-year-old Julianne Lenti on her foot in knee-deep water off Litchfield Beach, South Carolina. The Shark was never actually seen and not all authorities are convinced that the wound is completely consistent with a Shark jam. Julianne said that at first she thought it was a Crab that got her, but then she felt teeth. Whatever it was that got her, she needed 12 stitches.

If this was indeed a Shark bite this would make the third jam so far this summer off South Carolina beaches...well, on second thought...South Carolina is no where even close to Florida, but at least Jesse Helms is dead! Oh, Helms was from North Carolina?

Maybe South Carolina is the awkward girl capital of the United States?
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--Sharky

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C is For Cookie-cutter Shark and that's good enough for me.

Isistius brasiliensis or Cookie-cutter Shark is a savage little beast that gets its name from the circular puncture wounds it leaves in it's prey. It is only about 20-inches long but it can parasitically take down larger prey just by creeping it out. The underside of the Shark is bioluminous--it glows--which can attract fish at their own doom. It bites down on prey, often a Whale, Dolphin or large fish like a Tuna and rotates it's head like a circular drill bit.

This Pygmy Sperm Whale was so creeped out by a Cookie-cutter Shark that it beached itself.
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A female Pygmy Sperm Whale and her calf were found beached at Lakewood beach in Florida's panhandle on Friday. They were picked up and transferred to Gulf World Marine Park for "rehabilitation," but by Sunday both Whales had died from their trauma. At least they won't have to spend the rest of their lives performing for drooling high-functioners at a marine theme park.

These are Cookie-cutter bites on a Dugong.

Mmmm...Cookies...

--Sharky

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The extinction risk for many species may have been seriously underestimated new research published in the journal Nature has shown. The methodology currently used to determine extinction risk is flawed! Current methodology includes birth-to-death ratio and environmental conditions. These are two useful measures, but researchers Brett Melbourne and Alan Hastings believe that there are other overlooked assessment criteria that are overlooked: physical size of individual members of a species; behavior of individual members of a species; and most importantly--male-to-female ratio. If these other criteria are factored mathematically, many species may be 100 times greater to become extinct that previously thought!

Read.

In China, endangered Tigers are cut in half for easier transport to Tiger meat restaurants.

Just in time for your summer barbecues--Monkey Meat!

You may now get back to your hot dogs and beer,

--El Tiburon

P.S. Call me a hippie, but I don't think one's food should have a recognizable smile.

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There has been a bit of a stink in the blogosphere--whatever that means--about the Monterey Bay Aquarium's attempt to get another live juvenile White Shark to exhibit. The aquarium's White Sharks--the aquarium claims--come from rescued bycatch from compensated commercial fishermen. Others claim that this is propaganda spread to hide that the aquarium bribes Shark fishermen to specifically target juvenile White Sharks in order that the aquarium may put them on display.

This from Ken Peterson, an aquarium mouthpiece:

Since 2002, we and our university research colleagues have handled 30 young white sharks in Southern California waters. Of those, 29 were caught accidentally in gear used by commercial fishermen as they were fishing for sea bass or halibut. The 30th was caught hook-and-line by our staff, and was one of three young sharks brought to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Of the 29 caught in commercial gear, five died. Some of those deaths undoubtedly were the result of injuries the sharks sustained in fishing nets before we received them. (There's no definitive way to say in how many cases that was a factor.)
We do know that, because fishermen are willing to alert us when they accidentally catch a young white shark, we've been able to tag and track more than a dozen animals and learn more than has ever been known about their movements in waters off Southern California and Baja. You can find the published data from the initial tagging work here.

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Who you gonna believe? Do you really think that only five of the supposed 29 Sharks died? Do you really think that the commercial fishermen were only fishing for "sea bass or halibut?" Which member of the aquarium "staff" was responsible for catching the 30th Shark hook-and-line? If you pay a trophy fisherman to catch you a Shark, doesn't he in fact become aquarium staff? The aquarium likes to give a lot of lip service to their tagging programs. Can't these Sharks be tagged and released without penning them in Malibu and bringing them all the way up to Monterey to but on display for drooling tourists?

Enough words...here are some pictures.

A freshly captive juvenile White Shark:

Same Shark after he becomes stressed:
Notice the squashed rostrum? That is from bumping into the sides of his enclosure.

Squashed Rostrum:

Close up:

On Sunday, a juvenile male White Shark was released from the captivity pen off Malibu after six days, because he wasn't eating. But, there is late-breaking word that a juvenile female White Shark caught off Ventura on Monday is already in the captivity pen off Malibu. It looks like the Monterey Bay Aquarium is really working overtime to get a captive Shark just in time to capitalize on that late-summer tourist revenue.

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Stamp out greed and hubris.

--Sharky

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What part of the Shark bites will continue until the Shark tournaments cease don't people seem to understand?

There was another Shark party last Thursday. This one was at Isle of Palms, South Carolina. A 37-year-old man was swimming in the breakers when a 5-foot Shark grabbed his hand and took a taste. He required medical attention, but his hand will be fine...the guy probably wasn't a Shark fisherman. There are no pictures so we are going to have to fake it again.

This is more permanent than the damage done in Isle of Palms.

Two people were jammed at the Isle of Palms on the same day last August. They didn't report the Shark species back then either.

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The war will continue until the Shark fishing stops,

--Sharky

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