{"id":853713,"date":"2026-09-19T22:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853713\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:56:14","slug":"dead-hammerhead-sharks-found-dumped-near-bridge-in-hawaii-kai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853713\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead hammerhead sharks found dumped near bridge in Hawaii Kai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; State officials are investigating after approximately seven juvenile hammerhead sharks were found dumped near a bridge in Hawai\u02bbi Kai over the past several days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A young man walking home from Kaiser High School reported spotting the dead sharks on the grass near the bridge leading toward the post office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After reviewing photographs of the animals, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said the sharks may have been discarded as bycatch from a fishing net. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State officials noted that capturing sharks is generally illegal under Hawai\u02bbi law and dumping them constitutes criminal littering. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information is urged to call the DLNR enforcement hotline at 808-643-3567 (808-643-DLNR). <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anonymous tips can also be submitted via the DLNRTip app, text message or Online Form at <a href=\"https:\/\/dlnr.hawaii.gov\/dlnrtip\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/dlnr.hawaii.gov\/dlnrtip\/\">dlnr.hawaii.gov\/dlnrtip\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; State officials are investigating after approximately seven juvenile hammerhead sharks were found dumped near a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-853713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}