{"id":526808,"date":"2026-07-05T19:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:56:15","slug":"hammerhead-sharks-up-close-national-geographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526808\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammerhead Sharks Up close | National Geographic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The catching and releasing of these sharks by recreational sports fishers can also be detrimental. \u201cHammerheads tend to die very quickly with stress,\u201d says Papastamatiou. The longer a hammer stays out of the water, for something like a photo op, for example, the higher the chances it won\u2019t make it. \u201cJust because you see it swim off, doesn’t mean that it’s actually survived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hammerheads are slow-growing sharks, so it takes a long time for them to reach sexual maturity, and they only give birth to a few pups each year. \u201cIt takes a long time to replace individuals after they are fished,\u201d says Francesco Garzon, a marine biologist at the University of Exeter in the U.K.<\/p>\n

Overfishing has a devastating impact on shark populations globally. \u201cBetween 73 and 100 million sharks are killed each year,\u201d says Garzon. Since the 1970s<\/a>, \u201cwe may have lost up to 75 percent of oceanic sharks, including hammerheads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Solution 1: Protecting shark habitats<\/p>\n

Creating marine protected areas<\/a> (MPAs) at key habitats such as nurseries, feeding and mating areas, and migration routes can be an effective way to protect shark populations, says Garzon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The catching and releasing of these sharks by recreational sports fishers can also be detrimental. \u201cHammerheads tend to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[240768,240769,240765,85,46,91584,240770,141,159348,240766,240767,240771,240772,386],"class_list":["post-526808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-are-hammerhead-sharks-endangered","tag-bertie-gregory","tag-hammerhead-sharks","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-marine-protected-areas","tag-nat-geo-bertie-gregory","tag-science","tag-shark-finning","tag-sharks-up-close","tag-sharks-up-close-nat-geo","tag-what-is-a-marine-protected-area","tag-why-are-hammerhead-sharks-endangered","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}