Facebook video screengrab A tourist visiting the Caribbean had to be flown to a hospital after being attacked while trying to “engage” with a shark ... reef sharks, nurse sharks, lemon ...

The work of Cayman's shark taggers is the subject of a new documentary, 'Tagged & Tracked', that premiered this week.

Nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum), which ... sources to hire the fishers to do research,” Chapman said. A Caribbean reef shark in Belize. Image courtesy of Hector Martinez.

Since the 1980s, Caribbean reef shark populations have dropped 52 percent. In some places, their numbers have plummeted by as much as 99 percent, and since 2021 the sharks have been classified as ...