Starting in late August the Discovery Channel celebrated its 10th annual Shark Week extrav-FIN-ganza of shark videos and information. Word must have gotten out to the shark community about a  shark watching party because they’ve showed up in numbers like never before

Federal researchers with the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) captured and tagged 2,835 sharks in the waters from Florida to North Carolina in 2015, up a thousand sharks from 1,831 in 2012.

The leader of the survey, Lisa Natanson, says the rise in shark population is tied to federal regulations limiting commercial shark fishing, which were enacted in 1993.

Among the 13 most common species caught and tagged this year are the Sandbar Shark, Atlantic Sharp-nosed, Dusky, and Tiger sharks.

Scientists say just because there are a lot of sharks out there it  doesn't mean there are going to be more shark bites on people adding that the shark survey was conducted in areas where people were not swimming. (Fox)

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