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One story filed under silky shark on World Data Ocean. The newest of them: “Tracking Shark Movements Reveals Insights for Marine Sanctuary Protection”. Silky sharks favor natural banks in winter and spring, then shift to artificial reefs in summer. A Global Hub for Ocean Intelligence 4 World Data Ocean is a centralized digital platform where researchers, scientists, and ocean enthusiasts converge to… The list below is every silky shark story on World Data Ocean, newest first.

Tracking Shark Movements Reveals Insights for Marine Sanctuary Protection
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Tracking Shark Movements Reveals Insights for Marine Sanctuary Protection

Silky sharks favor natural banks in winter and spring, then shift to artificial reefs in summer. Sandbar sharks, by contrast, remain year-round across both habitats, with nearly half detected beyond sanctuary boundaries. These empirical, real-time data reveal that Flower Garden Banks cannot function as an isolated refuge. Protection must account for the integrated ecosystem these sharks actually use. For deeper context on how subsea infrastructure connects marine regions, see our related coverage of *Integrated Subsea Infrastructure Shifts to Enhance Indian Ocean Connectivity*.

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