Lamna+ditropis

The salmon shark, // Lamna ditropis //, is found in the North Pacific near Japan, Korea, and the Sea of Okhotsk to the Bering Sea and southward to southern California, USA and Baja California, Mexico. The salmon shark is a coastal- littoral and  epipelagic shark that inhabits cool temperate waters (2.5°-24°C) down to at least 152 The salmon shark (Lamna Ditropis) was classified as endangered on December 29, 2002 becuse a lot of them were getting killed. they inhabit coastal and oceanic waters of the northern Pacific ocean. They also live in icy waters. Salmon shark usually have 2 to 6 pups in their litter. Salmon shark also migrate from different sections of the world but most of them stay around the alaskan area, they are one of the few sharks that live in icy waters and that can change their body temperature which is called Homeothermy. They can grow up to 14.2 ft long and weigh up to 485 lbs. They are mostly black with a little bit of white and they also have black bloches on their stomachs.

Salmon shark ussually eat shrimp squid and benthic crabs but they perfer salmon out of anything. They are sometimes caught in bycatch but they are usually thrown back and a lot of fisherman see them as nusences and there have been reports of fisherman deliberatly damagin the sharks. salmon sharks are not currently being protected and i think they should be. People could easily just stop killing them off or they could make it a law that you cannot fish them and we can maybe breed them and produce more of them so they dont become extinct. m.

Scavenger Hunt Questions 1. An ocean climate regime shift characterized by warmer ocean temperatures began when? 2. When did the salmon shark become extinct? 3. Where are salmon shark mostly found?