Are there sharks in mississippi river

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These piggybacked sightings made up the majority of the reports Shell and Gardner examined. Their third theory is that venturing into the Mississippi is so uncommon for the fish that the two caught specimens can be viewed as anomalous events. Whatever the ancestral case, Gardner is hopeful that environmental DNA called eDNA for short can help scientists figure out just how common the behavior is.

Dolphins also make the same journey generally sticking to the more brackish section before it reaches the upper Swan area. This semi tidal area extends a long way inland during summer when the river catchment drops to zero so there is no fresh water flow to push the salty stuff back out to sea. While they may be able to tolerate the fresh water for a while they would need to return to the ocean soon enough.

Add to that they are very unlikely to be killed. So unless it had a heart attack do sharks have coronaries? The A. By Isaac Schultz.