The Black Sea, on the assumption of scientists, was formed from the existing eight thousand years ago on his place of fresh lake. The freshwater fauna inhabited here, due to the increase in the salinity of water, as a result of which the lower layers of the sea (below two hundred meters) are extremely saturated with hydrogen sulfide, which is the product of its decomposition.
Therefore, species of animals living in the Black Sea are significantly less than in the Mediterranean. Sharks in the Black Sea are found, but they are relatively few, and only one species. This is a shark-katran.
a brief description of
Shark-Katran has a sharpened shape characteristic of all. In the diet, it includes exclusively fish. The dimensions of the Black Sea shark has small: from the meter to two or a little more, the mass of the body is not more than twenty five kilograms. Although in the equatorial waters of the shark of such dimensions (truth, other species) at all, they do not mind the representative of the family of Homo Sapiens, Katran is famous for its peacefulness. Nowhere in the world (and the cathranes are distributed almost everywhere, even in Australia) not a single case of the attack of Akula-Katrana per person. Rather, a careless swimmer can be born about tough fins or the skin of this predator. Catransmen viviors, and "for one sitting" a female can bring to thirty fry.
Sharks in the Black Sea as an object of culinary claims
If the cathranes of people do not eat, then people love to enjoy the meat of this predator. Meat is used to prepare canned food or baluster, and a very tasty soup is boiled out of the fins. Found the use and sharks of the inside.
From the liver, which has a mass to one third (!) From the total body weight, produce fat, in which the content of vitamins A and E. Tails and heads go to the preparation of glue.
And yet you need to handle them carefully
It is not necessary to fear the teeth, but spikes Catrana. The spikes located on the back are covered with a poisonous mucus, and in the case of an injection can cause a very painful tumor, heals that very slowly. However, the usual beach rest is hardly threatened. Rather, it is necessary to fear someone who is engaged in extreme diving, and dangerous animals of the sea - the usual partners for posing in front of the camera. Or fishermen lovers who decide to exist exotic delicacy.
Perspectives of Katrana
Sharks in the Black Sea appeared seven and a half-eight thousand years ago, when an ancient freshly lake after a breakthrough of the Bosphorus Iron connected with the World Ocean. Sometimes (extremely rarely), sharks of other species swim here, but they are rather an exception, a phenomenon that is not characteristic of the Black Sea water area. Thus, the catranians remain the top of the food chain in the Black Sea ecosystem. This situation has already existed for many thousands of years, and environmentalists do not see the reasons for its change. Rather, maritime residents (and not only sharks) should be fear of pollution of the sea due to the increased activity of man. The Black Sea is perhaps the most dirtiest in the world, since its coast is thickly populated with ancient times, and polluted water from the depths of Europe will fall across the rivers in the sea. Environmentalists note that in the last quarter of the last century, the population of dolphins and cathranes in the Black Sea decreased several times. And it is possible that in the future the conversation on the topic "Sharks in the Black Sea" will be possible only on the pages of zoology textbooks.
Thoughts about what lies in aquatic depths, they probably visited every tourist, sent to relax on the sea. The water area of \u200b\u200bthe Saint Sea is insoped. The sea is small, surrounded by land from all sides, where densely populated countries have been developed and thrive.
The port vessels provoke a high maritime transportation indicator of a constantly running around the sea, so you can't call a calm sea black seal. This is exactly what the sharks does not attract, especially large, in the water of the Black Sea basin.
However, already permanent inhabitants of the Black Sea water are at least two officially registered as potentially dangerous fish: Katran and Cat Shark. The prevalence of these species is common to the sea, and the open danger for a person do not carry these fish.
Compared to the Black Sea, the water area of \u200b\u200bthe Mediterranean is more dangerous and filled with the mysterious inhabitants, consisting in the red hazard list for a person. However, the Mediterranean types of fish do not intersect with predators of the Black Sea, the more migrating in the water of the neighboring, the Black Sea.
Explain it just. Scientists argue that the condition of water is caused by this, namely, low salt content, especially in the surface layer, where it fluctuates within 15-18%.
Major predators enter the water area really, they can migrate through the Bosphorus duoka, but they will not be able to dwell in such conditions - this water is not suitable for them.
Distant to death at the stage of development, without passing the full cycle of maturation:
- gamets;
- caviar;
- larvae.
The main regulator of the population of large sharks in the waters of the Black Sea is practically full absence of a feed base for sharks. The nature of predators is such that they are in constant movement, pursuing the purpose of searching for food.
Feed base of the Black Sea Water area poor because small layer suitable for vital activity of water shark. Therefore, the monsters of the depths that suck fear on another fish and man, namely, the tiger shark, the big white and gray bulls are not able to survive in such a habitat.
As for the bull shark, it would be easily adapted to such conditions and could survive in almost fresh water, but only in the warm season. But in the cold, hunger in combination with cold will reveal any "jaw" from the water area. Sharks do not tolerate a sharp jump of temperature, but, even its very high drop.
In summer, the fish dog lives in the thickness of water with an average meaning and hunts on Mercles and Schrot. The diet of fish makes and dolphins, on which females of the Katrana hunt after mating, in the period from April to August, less often, in front of the egg layout - in early October-November.
Katran has excellent taste. Catrana liver is valued in medicine. Of it prepare rare drugs helping many diseases. Fish fat is useful for the growth and development of children's bones and maintaining the level of substances in adults.
Reproduction of Katrana It looks like this: becoming a hawk, about 17 years old, the female and the male, approximately 15 years old, mates. The process is characterized by seasonality: mating occurs in the spring, at a depth of 40-60 meters. An interesting feature of the breeding of a dog's fish or barbed shark is an egging.
Embryos and eggs are developing inside the mother of the mother to six months, after which the fish gives rise to fry closer to the shore, rising to a depth of about 25-35 meters. The female is able to give birth to 15 fry.
Dropping, the cranis returns to the water from the usual depth of habitat, and the fools occur in the fry, during which they depend on themselves, and survive.
Young shark is born to half a meter.
Cat Shark - Another Predator of the Black Sea
An ordinary habitat for this fish is the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean water area. In the Black Sea, the shark shark is rarely swimming, mainly during the migration period.
Her length It is 75 cm, this is the maximum indicator, but there are rosy fish, reaching one meter. In reality, these sharks do not exceed 50 cm long, which is an average statistical indicator. To the habitats of this species of fish include coastal and rooted waters of the sea.
As food for feline shark Benthos acts - it is a different nature of the organisms characterized by low mobility, and inhabited in the bottom waters.
Benthosu includes:
- killed worms;
- marine grills;
- two-handed and buccular clams.
After mating sharks, eggs are laying off. One female is able to postpone from several pieces to two dozen eggs with a full-fledged burner shell resembling an egg-shaped capsule. Eggs are attached to sea stones or other obstacles with special process threads and undergo the next stage of development, after which the figs of the shark are increasing.
Live feline sharks even less of their relatives of the cathrane, and the cycle of their livelihoods is approximately 10 years.
How to catch more fish?
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How to catch shark?
To catch shark use many ways of considerationBut some fishermen, in line with all methods, use glitter for catching, giving preference to this particular gear. It resembles a fishing rod that uses in the season of winter afforestation of fish.
Sheer glittering is great for catching cathrane. In this case, you can catch from a boat or boat. We usually fasten the load for weighting. Choosing this method for catching, remember that the covering here is an integral part of the consideration, and it should be sharp and swallowed if you catch in coastal waters. Check out with caution, slowly.
In the spring and summer period, the fish approaching the shore in search of food, so catching is possible even from the shore without the need to exit the sea. In this case, it is necessary to use: a long fishing line with a load at the base, several leashes with hooks.
If you have a big desire to fish Catrana, and the gear listed above is not in your inventory, use conventional fishing rod with float. It is difficult to guarantee the result in this case, because the tackle is not characterized by power and resistance, but everything is worth trying.
When there is a period of isolated hydrogen sulfide with sea depths and the thickness of water becomes very little oxygen, catrana can be caught on the very shore where the sea is thrown out. At this time, you can be like a "shoemaker without boot" without taking with you no tackle, just take the cathrean "bare hands."
Tackle on shark
Choosing a snap can be given a preference to a tier, but do not forget to take care of Length of the fishing line. It should be at least a hundred meters of length and be a diameter of at least 0.5 mm. By the end of the fishing line, it was peculiar to attach a weight of about 300 g, so that the tackle plunges rather.
Leashes With forged hooks to such tackles are attached in stages, tiers, observing an equal distance between them.
Fishing scheme There is no need for a tier not too complicated and enjoy certain skills.
With a clutter of large fish, it is important to call someone to help, as it is difficult to dig a large cathrane alone, and it is absolutely unrealistic to pull the boat, especially if the fish is gigantic as for its kind of sizes.
Often for catching sharks use tackle called petty tyrant. According to manufacturing technique, it is very much like a tier tackle. The only difference is the number of leashes.
In their first, there are live fish or baits for a certain color range, predominantly pink and blue tones as bait. Leashes for a self-director should not be longer than 10 centimeters so that when casting they are not confused.
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On the Internet, he began to walk rumors about the possible appearance of white sharks in the Black Sea. I understand that now the season of vacation, the topic of attacks Akul is relevant. But...
I was very interested in this topic - can you swim in our Black Sea Major and dangerous for people of the shark?
In addition, recently the entire Internet sign up with the headlines "in the Black Sea, octopuses live in: in Odessa, a rare creature was thrown ashore to the shore - octopus.
He was discovered by a local journalist, who after wrote in Facebook:
Octopus! I read the book "Rare Animals of the Black Sea" a book "Rare Animals of the Black Sea" there was no octopus. Even a white shark was! It was written that every three years swims, and there was no octopus! Since when are they found from us?
Well, after such an event, it pulled the "search" white sharks in the Black Sea :)
After all, we all inspired that it was unrealistic to meet any octologists and dangerous sharks ...
But they meet!
It is not a secret for a long time that white sharks have no obstacles to the swim in the Black Sea water area. The dispute can only arise in the question - why are they swimming here?
Really, why?
I began to search for information about the presence in our sea of \u200b\u200bdangerous sharks. But all the arguments that are "experts" lead to some kind of unauthorized conclusions.
... Aclaus get to the Black Sea is difficult ... But the single cases of the clock sharks were still fixed. In particular, one hammer shark was registered near Romania.
Large predators from the Mediterranean Sea through the Bosphorus are quite likely, but far from the strait and Turkish banks they will not swim - the water is "not tasty" for them.
In the Black Sea, there are small sharks that people do not touch, although they hunt the dolphins. Of course, much larger predators from the Mediterranean Sea can go there, but it is extremely rare, because they are a bit ...
That is, white sharks swim to us all the same can. But, according to scientists, they are not a place here, they are not waiting here, and as a conclusion - there should be no dangerous sharks in the Black Sea. And the point!
Here are such excuses.
And if you saw a large shark - just don't believe your eyes :)
I believe that this information can consciously hide. After all, the news about the appearance of dangerous sharks in the Black Sea may not be a joke to undermine the entire travel business in the region. And the authorities will have to work very hard to avoid panic, and besides, the financial question will rise to measures to protect guests from the attacks of predators.
Naturally, it is easier to hide the information than to fuss and spend money it is not clear to what (although, in Primorye, some Deltsi have made good calibises on sharks).
In my post, I will not disclose conspiracies and reproach someone in conceiving relevant information. And I just want to speculate about whether it is possible to meet a big white shark in the Black Sea.
So, we begin our investigation into the case "White Shark in the Black Sea"
DISCOUNT №1 - White Sharley is nowhere to appear here
Here we repeat as a mantra the following fact: in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea there are about 47 types of sharks, 16 of them reach 3 meters long, and 15 species are considered dangerous for a person. Checking the lists, discover and already familiar to us cannibals: a big white, tiger, bull, long-old. Dangerous mako and hammer sharks also live here.
In recent years, about the active settlement of the Mediterranean Sea with white sharks does not speak among the commercials only lazy.
In order not to stretch the post, I will give only a couple of references on the topic. Who will be interested - familiarize yourself.
Thus, from the world's ocean in the Black Sea, sharks can get the only way - from the Mediterranean Sea through the Bosphorus Strait.
(There are also rumors that white death swims through some underwater marine tunnels)
Here is the map of the region:
And these are the Straits of Dardanelles and Bosphorus:
As you can see, white sharks can safely get into our sea, and there is nothing mystical.
Error №2 - sharks do not swim, because the Black Sea is too cold for them
We talked about it 10 years ago, and continue to insist now, despite the active global warming, which already gives its results in the form of an active increase in the average annual temperature of the Black Sea water.
... The main reason why these sharks-cannibals in the Black Sea are not particularly interested - low (for sharks) water temperature.For example, for white sharks, the optimal water temperature should be at least +18 degrees. The lower the temperature, the same they are less mobile.
And I read it in the bourgeois. Already closer to reality:
Although white sharks were not previously seen, yet, they may appear in the Black Sea in the near future. The water of the Black Sea is too cold for sharks (but every year it rises faster).The exception is the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and the southern coast of the Crimea, protected by mountain ranges from cold winds from the north. The mild Mediterranean climate prevails here.
The temperature in winter almost never falls below 0 degrees, and in the summer it is + 23-25 \u200b\u200bdegrees.
Let's look at the map with the display of water temperature in summer in the Black Sea:
Almost everywhere water warms up above 20 degrees.
We open Wikipedia and learn: White sharks inhabit the open ocean and coastal waters of continental and island shelves with a temperature of 12-24 degrees, usually closer to the surface of the water, preferring areas of the coastal of temperate climate.
Asks - with what fruit of the Black Sea for sharks is too cold?
In addition, for some reason, everyone suddenly forgot that white shark refers to warm-blooded types of sharks. This means that it is capable of increasing the temperature of its body by 10-12 degrees compared to the ambient temperature.
The error is broken in the fluff and dust.
Error №3 - the Black Sea is styled with hydrogen sulfide, so big sharks will not survive here
Let's deal with.
The characteristic feature of the Black Sea is the lack of life at depths more than 150-200 meters due to the saturation of the deep layers of water with hydrogen sulfide.
Due to the fact that the upper layer of water in the sea is weakly mixed with the lower, the oxygen is rarely entered by the bottom of the sea. And where there is no oxygen - it begins rotting. One of the results of rotting is the release of hydrogen sulfide.
Measurements have shown that in the center of the Black Sea, the hydrogen sulfide zone is approaching the surface by about 50 meters, closer to the shores the depth of the zone increases to 300 meters.
That is, "experts", manipulating the facts summarize us to the conclusion: there are no life at the depth, then all sharks will die here.
And what, all sharks we have deep-water?
Again we go to Wikipedia: white sharks are usually dressed closer to the surface of the water, preferring areas of the coastal.
There is also an interesting fact: white sharks can be observed primarily near the sea (depth of 250 meters) bottom or near the surface, but in the middle layers these predators are almost never found.
It turns out that just off the coast of the Black Sea is the probability of meeting the white shark maximum. This is spoken by our facts.
Map of the depths of the Black Sea:
But information for reflection: the average level of the Black Sea rose over the past century by 12 cm; This change is masked by strong sea level fluctuations (up to 20 cm during the year).
However, recent satellite altimetry data has shown a strong acceleration of the level of the Black Sea: up to 20 cm over a decade. Many specialists associate this phenomenon with melting of polar ice as a result of global warming.
It turns out that the comfort zone for whites sharks every year here only increases!
Error №4 - the salinity of the water of the Black Sea too low so that dangerous sharks here swim
Interestingly, most people still think that it is impossible to meet a shark in fresh water.
No matter how much - white sharks can calmly swim in the rivers and lakes (talk to a little later).
It is also worth mentioning about the shark-killer number 1 - by the bullish shark, which can generally live in fresh water. Therefore, it can easily be adapted in the waters of the Black Sea, and to dwell here in the summer.
With the analysis of the most common misconceptions. Now direct text.
I agree that the majority of sharks do not come here, but why no one seriously considers the version of the temporary extinguishing into the Black Sea water area of \u200b\u200bdangerous sharks? Who knows what they have on the mind?
And in general, earlier in the Black Sea could be seen a shark-molotov and even fox sharks, who swam the straight line from the Mediterranean Sea.
It became, and white sharks can calmly swim here. This is especially true of young individuals - the instinct of self-preservation pushes them to stick to shallow water and away from their major fellow. Around the world, many cases have been recorded when inexperienced young (sizes under 2-3 meters) attacked swimming in the shores of people.
The deaths and offend limbs on their account do not remember, but the injuries "youth" leaves serious.
It is in search of temporary asylum that young white sharks are swimming in fresh lakes and rivers. Especially often it happens in Australia. Including attacks on anyone unsuspecting holidaymakers.
Well, in the Black Sea, the children of white death in general do not swim sin. This is clearly demonstrated by the cases of the capture of young predators next to the striblings listed above on the map.
Here is a video on which Turkish fishermen caught a young sex of a big white shark not far from the Dardanelles Strait in July 2011.
Earlier, in 2008 and 2009, the young sharks came across the fishermen here. There is information that big white sharks sometimes meet in the Marmara Sea, which connects the Black Sea with Mediterranean (through Aegean).
Did you hear about it? Nobody told you about it?
Surely! Who will tell you that white sharks are rushing to popular resorts? All this is silent, so as not to lift the unnecessary panic and not to scare away tourists.
And the fishermen are ridiculed - they say, drunk bikes, screamed, shunko, earned that sharks are mercy.
I can only agree with the argument that for reasons why large sharks are not interested in Black Sea waters are not enough full-fledged feed base.
But there are nuances here.
First, sharks are not psychics, it cannot foresee "weak cuisine".
Secondly, where is good now? The depletion of the feed base struck all the sharks of the oceans. And they will look for options with the smallest competition, where you can somehow get started.
Thirdly, the young individuals of white sharks feed mainly in small fish (again Wikipedia), so it may well bother off the shores of the Black Sea.
Why exactly off the coast?
And let's look at the map of the migration routes and spawning of the Black Sea fish resources:
Information for thinking
Here is interesting information about the blue sharks, relatives of white:
Due to the consequences of global warming, after 10 years, blue sharks will meet in the coastal waters of the Crimea. This was stated by a marine biologist from Kerch Evgeny Gubanov.
Water in the black and marble seas gradually warms, and blue sharks in pursuit of food can swim in them from the Mediterranean.If warming continues with the same pace as now, after 10 years, blue sharks will meet in the coastal waters of the Crimea and the Caucasus.
Theoretically, they are low hazard, but if they are hungry, they can attack a person.
Gubanov studies sharks for 40 years, including worked in Sharm el-Sheikh, when in 2010 there was a series of bloody attacks on tourists off the coast of the Red Sea.
According to him, the cause of everything is the global warming.
Sharks can freely go through the marble, Aegean seas, the Bosphorus Strait, and will be with our shores.In 2010 in the Bosphorus Strait, near Istanbul, Turkish fishermen caught three large blue sharks. And this is the consequence of global warming, the oceanographer is sure.
And all this, against the background of the fact that the past 2015 became a record for the attacks of sharks per person.
About the case with a huge shark-goblin, found in the Black Sea, I will not describe. They spoke a lot about this in all news.
It will be important to mention that in the Black Sea everywhere and long lived a barbed shark katran, as well as a cat shark, which swims from the Mediterranean Sea.
Attacks of sharks killers on people in the Black Sea
On the Internet, I found only one described case of an unknown monster. By the time of attack (evening) and the nature of the attack is very similar to a white shark.
The murder occurred in the resort village of Ordzhonikidze, in Crimea, in August 2011.
According to numerous eyewitnesses, the marine monster attacked the young woman literally a few dozen meters from the coast.
The tragedy played around 9 o'clock in the evening, when it was already dark on the street, but there were still people on the beach. Two girls decided to swim, they floated near the coast. Suddenly, one of them went to the bottom to the bottom.
The second managed to grab a girlfriend for the hair and pull out the jerk. Some kind of miracle she did not give predator to drown his prey.
In the shock of the girl got out of the water. The victim was burned out of the body a large piece of abdominines and indoors at the spleen.
The victim (Tourist from Kharkov) was removed unconscious to the first Merodosia Golobrian. A few hours later, the girl died from serious injuries.
The attack was written off on the mythical Karadagh monster-snake, inhabiting in the Black Sea!
It is clear, the stories with the snake will only contribute to the influx of tourists, while any information about large sharks will make it seriously.
Well, now our small investigation approached the end. As we found out, it is not necessary to relate to rest on any, even on the Black Sea, and ignore security information. Attacks Shark in Primorye on people with cropped limbs - a bright confirmation of this.
Forewarned is forearmed!
Especially it is not known what to expect from climate and sharks in the next decade.
I hope the information from this post was not only interesting to you, but also interested you for sharks. After all, sharks are the most dangerous and most ancient predators on our planet!
It remains only to disassemble the question: where in the black sea, the probability of meeting the white shark is the highest?
And let's see all the cards that I postponed above, and remember all the information information.
At the resorts of Egypt, wondered: Is it so safe for swimwear and divers of the Black Sea water? Are there any sharks in the Black Sea at all, and is it possible to meet with them on the coasts of the Caucasus and Crimea?
In order to comprehensively answer this question and calm all alarms, it is simply necessary to make a tours, albeit a brief, in the history of the water area, which is now called the Black Sea. 10 million years ago there was a huge reservoir that scientists were correct by the Sarmatian Sea. Gradually, with the growth of the mountains, it was divided into a number of large seas-lakes cut off from the waters of the World Ocean: Aral, Caspian and Black. This is the last, as a result of the huge number of rivers in it, it began to utter. Over time, the whole fauna, inhabiting in the ancient Black Sea Lake, has become freshwater. But 8 million years ago there was a huge force of the earthquake, which created and strait Bosphorus and Dardanelles and the fatal fatal for the then masses were poured from the Mediterranean Sea to black. The changes were so fast that the freshwater marine inhabitants of the Black Sea did not have time to adapt to them. The huge number of dead bodies sank to the bottom, and the process of their decomposition made the Black Sea exceptional, not similar to other seas: an hydrogen sulfide layer arose, located below 150 m from the surface of the water.
This layer of hydrogen sulfide makes the huge spaces of the Black Sea unsuitable. Below 150 m can exist, except for sulfurobic bacteria, which only increase the percentage of hydrogen sulfide in their livelihoods. This circumstance is a narrow layer in which the fish is found, the life of such large and dangerous predators, like sharks in the Black Sea, is very tightened. But hydrogen sulfide is not the only factor that blocks the path of sharks. A large number of rivers and the narrowness of the Bosphorus Strait are noticeable to the water of this sea. Suffice it to say that the salty of the Black Sea is twice as well as the Mediterranean. In addition, in winter, its surface of its water can be cooled to + 9 s, which for dodging in the cool, but still not cold waters of the Atlantic sharks are very uncomfortable. It is unsuitable for sharks and a scant feed base of the Black Sea: Large predators prefer large and staked prey, inhabitants in the depths of water, while the Black Sea is rich in small fish: Hamsa, Sprott, Sardines, who live in the surface layers of water.
If we assume that some shark and swim in the summer of the Mediterranean Sea into black, it is unlikely that it will get away from the Bosphorus because of the unsuitability of water and the poverty of the feed. But still there are sharks in the Black Sea, and even two more types. But do not rush to scare! This is a shark-katran, called a dog shark because of the similarity of the muzzle, and these two kinds feed, like small fish, moving in small flocks. They don't eat people, although their mouths, again, like dolphins, are full of teeth. But people willingly eat these small sharks: the steaks of the cathrane are considered to be a big delicacy in Crimea, and Balyk from Catrana is valued as well as a bald from sturgeon, since this fish almost does not have bones, and its meat has excellent taste.
However, unambiguously discard the danger of shark in the Black Sea, it is still not worth it: the cathrane on the fin is a sharp spike, which causes painful sensations and can provoke inflammation of the wounds. Although for cathranes and cat sharks, it is not peculiar, sometimes they swim in shallow water, and you can just step on them. In this case, the fish can be powered and teeth with a fright. But such a case was recorded only once for all the years of observations (in the 1970s, the sharks are not at all for the most dangerous animals for a person in the Black Sea - this is not shark, but the slots-tailings. Their backs are equipped with no simple spikes, but poisonous. Portion of injected poison is not deadly for a person, but it can seriously spoil him a vacation, because the limb from the bitter swells. There are cases of death of people (though, not in the Black Sea) from the blow of spikes in vital bodies. But, in general, the Black Sea is considered the safest compared to with others.
For many, it is a discovery, but this is a fact - sharks are found in the Black Sea. It is home to many types of living organisms, and two types of these predators live on its territory.
Dogfish
The first is called Katran (another shark is called barbed or sea dog). Catran can sometimes grow to more than two meters. And reach a mass of 25 kilograms. The body of the fish is covered with small scales and has an adapted streamlined shape for the habitat of a predator in the Black Sea. Such a form helps with ease to overcome water resistance and sail at high speed.
Color color on the back and sides - dark gray. In these places there may be spots of white. Shark has a pointed face and a long body. On the bottom on the face there is a mouth, which is bent in a semicircle of the book, creating the impression that the fish constantly scoffs viciously.
For shark of this kind, food search in the Black Sea depends on the time of year. In winter, Katran tries to keep a significant depth, about 100 - 150 meters, where the stavrids and Hams are rising. In the summer, Katran rises to depths in an area of \u200b\u200b40 - 45 meters and eats here with sprats and meringues. The average life expectancy of this predator in the Black Sea is 25 years old.
Cat shark
The second type of predatory fish in the Black Sea is called a schillium. Or differently - a cat shark. This shark does not reach large sizes and does not grow more than one meter.
Cat shark Photo: http://www.lowbird.com/
In the Black Sea, Katran and Szyllium behave very aggressively towards their victims, but for a person these sharks do not imagine a special threat. The only thing that constitutes a danger is the barbs on the body of the cathrane. They can be broken about them, and the mucus, which is covered with spines, has poisonous properties. So really - there are sharks in the Black Sea, but they do not carry much danger.
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