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The Bahamas, An Eden for Sharks
By National Geographic, March 2007
Feb 18, 2007 - 10:40:10 AM

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"Sharks are in decline worldwide, yet they abound in the Bahamas. What makes this blue-water archipelago a sanctuary?
More than 40 species cruise Bahamian waters, including lemons, great hammerheads, bulls, blacktips, makos, silkies, nurses; even migrating blues and massive whale sharks pass through. Others live here year-round, giving birth in the same quiet lagoons where they were born."

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