Can you visit the Wadden Sea?
De Wadden Sea is the world’s largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. Lees meer
Are there sharks in the Wadden Sea?
Nynke Wright
2025-11-12 10:50:32
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The Wadden Sea is used by tope sharks as an area to give birth to their young.
Tope sharks are one of the species of larger fish that use the Wadden Sea.
The function of the Wadden Sea for these larger species, including tope sharks, is not well understood.
For tope sharks, which use the Wadden Sea as an area to give birth to their young, special pop-up DST are used.
This group consists of species such as sea trout, grey mullet, sea bass and tope shark.
Lindsey van Gemert
2025-11-07 00:11:09
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These species have all but disappeared from our own Wadden Sea.
Sharks and rays have a significant role in these ecosystems.
In intertidal areas, we see mainly small species of shark and ray and, in addition, young individuals of larger species of shark, such as the hammerhead shark and bull shark.
Sharks and rays are mobile species that move between intertidal areas and the open ocean.
Sharks and rays that swim onto the intertidal flats at high tide may become stranded when the water recedes at low tide.
It is likely that birds, as well as rays and sharks, are partly hunting for the same food.
Sharks and rays use the shallow water to hide from larger predatory fish and to search for food.
Sharks and rays have an essential role.
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Is Wadden Sea worth visiting?
The Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea is one of the biggest attractions in the entire state. The Wadde Lees meer
Mason Brandon
2025-10-31 11:56:13
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Formerly typical elements of the Wadden Sea fish fauna such as sharks, rays and cod are largely absent,
there are 17 endangered fish species in the Wadden Sea area: river lamprey, sea lamprey, twaite shad, European eel, North Sea houting, Atlantic salmon, sea stickleback, greater pipefish, snack pipefish, greater weever, poor cod, transparent goby, picked dogfish, tope shark, starry smooth-hound, common stingray and thornback ray.
Kay van der Veen
2025-10-26 03:14:22
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Researchers found four newborn tope sharks around Terschelling and Ameland this past week.
The species is in bad shape worldwide.
They discovered that more tope shark pups are swimming around in the area.
This “confirms the image that the Wadden sea is used as a birthing ground” for the tope shark.
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Which is the nicest Wadden Island?
Texel is the perfect island if you want a bit of everything. Ameland is often overlooked but has a Lees meer
Is the Wadden Sea rough?
Strong onshore winds can push in more water causing high tides to reach 4 m above normal. Strong of Lees meer
Jennifer van der Berg
2025-10-14 09:44:55
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Shrimp trawlers have been pulling up an increasing number of young bottom feeding sharks.
Biologists suspect the area’s shark population is growing.
The Wadden Sea’s shark population fell sharply in the 1970s.
Their return would be good news because sharks have a key role in the food chain.
Joep Wolters
2025-10-05 20:50:40
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In 2015, shrimp fishermen in the Wadden Sea began to tag sharks which they caught accidentally.
Lesser spotted dogfish live close to sandy or muddy bottoms, preferably where seaweed also grows.
Young dogfish prefer shallow water while adults prefer deeper water.
Lesser spotted dogfish are found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, including the North Sea.
They can swim incredible distances.
Specimen that were caught and marked in the North Sea were found later on as far away as the Canary Islands.
You can usually see a tear where the young shark left the egg.
Lesser spotted dogfish are small bottom sharks and are harmless for man.
Sometimes you find the empty olive-colored egg cases along the flood mark on the beach.
These egg cases are also called mermaid’s purses.
It is very unusual to find a case that still contains life.
That is easy to check, since the egg capsule is transparent.
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Are you allowed to swim in the sea?
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Job van Dam
2025-10-05 16:55:28
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In 2015, shrimpers in the Wadden Sea were asked to begin tagging any sharks that they caught in their nets and putting them back in the sea.
Researchers would like school sharks in and around the Wadden Sea to be tagged and tracked with GPS in order to determine how often the northern Dutch waters are used as a shark nursery.
Walker says that the group is carrying out research into sharks and rays that are found in Dutch waters and in former Dutch territories abroad.
Livia Vermeulen
2025-10-05 16:02:38
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Sharks and rays seek refuge between the flooded sea banks.
The Wadden Sea is the largest intertidal area in the world, but there are few sharks and rays to be found there now.
Sharks and rays play an important ecological role in the intertidal areas.
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What time should you not swim in the ocean?
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