If you catch a tagged shark, state biologists want you to be careful and let it go. Trent Trentacosta was swimming with his family in Lake Pontchartrain LA Friday, when a bull shark bit his ankle. Sam Barbera has a job most sportsmen would envy. The bite's appearance suggests it … The attack happened off of Southshore Harbor. I’m just glad it got him on the foot. "I can't recall the last time there was a shark attack in Lake Pontchartrain," Carlson told Live Science.

It is unknown if the shark was released Sharks are not uncommon in the lake. "I think it was the amount of time it took to get to the person, because they were swimming so far out," Ferguson said.

Dangers in the Deep: 10 Scariest Sea Creatures. "We saw a couple jumping the other day, spinning. The seven year old was out sailing with his family on a clear day. Copyright 2016 WVUE. But two years ago, seven-year-old Trent Trentocosta was attacked about three miles off the South Shore, sort of a bull shark wake up call. "We put a tag on their back. Judging by the size of the bite, he was likely attacked by a small bull shark between four-to-five feet long and that bull is not alone. Read the full report. Shelly Trentacosta said her family had borrowed a friend’s sailboat and ventured out into the lake. But they can be just about anywhere.

It was clamped down. Bit this isn't just any prey, his goal is to hook one of the deadliest animals on earth, a bull shark.

His skepticism was rooted in the fact that most of the bigger sharks are out of Lake Pontchartrain at this time of year. Some of the cuts were deep and wide enough that they would have been aided by stitches, but the family elected not to go that route. ‘(Trent) was kind of freaked out,’ Trentacosta said. The other apex predator is the garfish. "Those transmitters have a relatively short range and are picked up by dozens of receivers across Lake Pontchartrain.

While it may seem unusual for a shark to turn up in this part of Louisiana, Lake Pontchartrain isn't strictly a lake — it's an estuary, a coastal body of brackish water connected by rivers or streams to the open ocean.

“Now granted, there are still 6-footers in the lake, but I’m speechless that one might have bitten somebody.”.

Follow us @livescience, Facebook & Google+. It was neat," Barbera said. That includes bull sharks, which are among the world’s man-eaters. But shark attacks are extremely rare, said John Carlson, a research biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service in Panama City, Florida.

So where are the hotspots? Bite marks were clearly visible surrounding his heel and on his big toe. A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2020 Gray Television, Inc. Officials warn of dangerous bull sharks in Lake Pontchartrain. There are plenty of sharks out there and the state is determined to track as many as they can. Bull sharks can survive in both saltwater and freshwater, and have been known to frequent the lake.

Two years ago, the state tagged 18 bull sharks, which they are still tracking.

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