Ya I was on the water then saw like 2 sharks swimming around. I mean that's cool as fuck but God damn!!! I'm from the north where every living thing doesn't try and kill u and shit so I not used to these nasty warm weather critters
blah, considering you are probably on fresh water, that would make those bull sharks, so the answer is not no, but hell no you can't swim with them. Bull sharks maim or kill more people annually than any other type. Also, considering polar bears are arguably the most deadly critter on the planet, I doubt eskimos ride around on them.
@Daddilac I got one living in a lake two blocks from here about 8 feet long weighs close to 300 pounds says he love to just use bulldogs as a chew toy ;)
Learn something everyday.
How far up stream from the river's opening do they get? Probably not that big I am guessing. But still not to be tangled with.
SJG
They’ve been found many miles upriver in many places, I believe they have the ability to survive in sweetwater for long periods of time.
I believe there’s a case from Toms River NJ, where they terrorized several upriver communities for a few months in the early part of the 20th century, not sure of the dates but you’ll find it on google sometime around 1920 or thereabouts.
If sharks are adapting to less and less salt, that can pose a threat to other fresh water species.
Like often it is trailer boats which are a factor in transporting stuff up stream. The authorities want people to make absolutely sure they have nothing hiding on board, like cleaning out the insides of the trailer's wheels, and then all the water intakes on the boat.
I think the bright tropical fish are from Central America, because their lakes did not freeze in the ice age, and because they really careful about letting any salt water critters get in there. So places like Costa Rica have what have been protected evolutionary niches, going back before the ice ages. Our North American lakes are not like that.
SJG
Well yes I know that about Salmon and other species. Because we don't let any water to speak of go down the Colorado and get to the delta, they cannot spawn there anymore. Has to be in man made tanks.
SJG
More recently there was a pod of whales lost on the Thames and sighted near London, salmon rookeries are in Alaska and Canada in the Yukon talking about sweet and salt water species.
Bullsharks have gone as far up the Mississippi River as Illinois for sure and they are pretty sure it was a bullshark attack in Lake Michigan.
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The bull shark has a special organ that allows it to flush out excess salt, so they can live in fresh water for their entire lives. They actually lay their eggs and their young spend the beginning of their lives in fresh water before going out to sea. They have been caught hundreds of miles up the Amazon river and reports of a shark in a lake in Pennsylvania was reported I believe.
Wow!
They say that when salt water fish and plants are dumped into fresh water, some might survive. And so this is why the authorities are so against it and want such precautions taken.
But then this bull shark must be something else.
We can see why they must be so careful in places like Costa Rica, species that go back before the Ice Ages.
Fresh water stuff going down river, that is harder to control. Mostly they don't want salt going to fresh, or stuff from one fresh water body going to another fresh water body. Trailer boats, both the boats and the trailers are some of the culprits.
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