One of the very interesting under-water communities under Mother Nature's watch "in New Brunswick" is the shark community. We in New Brunswick often tend to think sharks are fish that are found "down south" or "somewhere else". However, that's not the case. We have sharks off our New Brunswick coastline and they play a very significant role as a member of the underwater community. Let's pay a call on the shark community off New Brunswick today to see who's here and how they're doing.

The shark community took a major PR hit 32 years ago with the release of the movie Jaws. That label that sharks are human-munching machines is extremely unfortunate. There are approximately 400 shark species worldwide. Of those, there are very few species that would ever consider attacking a human. In fact, the vast majority of them feed on fish and marine mammals and the huge second-largest shark in the world, the Basking Shark, comes to our Bay of Fundy water each summer to feed on the huge quantities of the tiny sea creatures copepods and krill. The world's largest shark, the Whale Shark, has been confirmed in one sighting and suspected in another in the Bay of Fundy.

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