According to reports, the man was fishing in the popular vacation spot for the wealthy when he reeled in the sandbar shark, ...

"They're wild animals, so sometimes accidents like this do happen," he said.

"The sharks and the humans are both on the water's edge more frequently in the summer," said Dr. Nick Whitney, senior ...

Nantucket banned swimming around the Great Point beach area after several attacks on seals, and Long Island has deployed drones and WaveRunner lifeguards to monitor for sharks.

Sandbar sharks, after the local population was decimated decades ago because of overfishing, are now all over the Nantucket coast — and a researcher at the New England Aquarium has tagged more ...