Blue shark
Length | Up to 12-13 ft, possibly up to 20 ft |
Description | Bluish gray, large slender shark with pointed snout, long pectoral fins, and anterior |
Food | Eats cephalopods, small bony fishes, crustaceans, mammalian carrion |
Habitat | Vertically migrates between the surface and 1,800 ft during the day and surface and 600 ft at night; near islands remains offshore during summer months, but appears to move closer to shore at twilight in the spring, returning to open ocean before sunrise |