Sharks off the coast of the Adriatic

Shark phobia haunts tourists in Montenegro and Croatia. The fear of meeting the evil owner of terrible jaws in the Adriatic is not without reason. Just the other day, the fishermen of the Montenegrin Herceg Novi caught a large marine predator. Also at the beginning of the season, 10 km from the famous beaches of Budva, a 3-meter shark was caught in the net.

And on the beach of the Croatian island of Krk, bathers jumped ashore in a panic, noticing a large triangular fin next to them. From the photo, it was later determined that it was not a shark, but a swordfish that does not attack a person. Most likely, she swam close to the shore in the heat of chasing small fish. But the bathers had no time to understand these subtleties, seeing a 4-meter individual with a large "shark" fin nearby.

In the same Croatia, residents of one of the coastal villages watched as a blue shark was dragged from the shallows to be sent back to the sea. Fortunately, not all Adriatic sharks are dangerous to humans. So bluegills are absolutely harmless and are even protected as a particularly rare species.

In general, there are 59 species of sharks in the waters of the Adriatic Sea, most of which live at great depths away from summer beaches. It turns out sharks don't like to swim in warm water. Most often they swim up to the coast in winter. Fortunately, most of them do not pose a danger to humans. In any case, this is what experts studying the elasmobranchs of this region say.