Mystery predators are eating anglers’ fish off the hooks. Florida study finds culprits

Sport fishing has more than its share of wild stories, but there is nothing exaggerated about a growing plague of mangled fish being reeled in along the nation’s southern coastline, researchers say.

Mysterious apex predators are involved, and a newly published study by Florida Atlantic University is identifying the culprits.

It’s sharks, specifically bull sharks, lemon sharks and sandbar sharks , according to FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute…

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