PEAK listener Christine Rego was out for her usual afternoon beach walk at Centennial Beach in south Delta when she stumbled upon what appears to be a dead spiny dogfish shark.
According to the Van Courier, she and her friend Tami Ryder called the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to report the finding, said her husband is a diver and took immediate interest, looking up the various types of sharks that are in B.C. waters. They believe what she found may be a sixgill shark.
The dogfish is apparently most common of all 14 sharks found in BC waters, and maybe we should become better acquainted with them: UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries predicted great whites and more species could become sighted more often in our waters due to climate change
