What are these growths/parasites? Caught 3 juvenile sandbar sharks today with them all over the belly/tail
Pandaridrus sp. an ectoparasitic copepod common to most Atlantic elasmobranchs.
I’m not an expert but those look a lot like Sea Louse. I have found them on salmon I have caught.
I think it’s copepods!!
Don’t fish for sharks!
You can’t always help it like OP. I went salmon and ling cod fishing and caught multiple dogfish