Toxic pufferfish in Europe and sharks in the UK - how scared should we be?

Toxic pufferfish in Europe and sharks in the UK - how scared should we be? examines rising public worry about hazardous marine encounters across Europe and the UK. The article cites an alert from the Greek Red Cross after reports of pufferfish attacks on swimmers in Greece, including viral videos showing the animals biting through tin cans. It notes sightings beyond Greece, including off Spain, Italy, Turkey, and Israel. It also reports a June encounter in the Strait of Sicily: a diver recorded a rare meeting with a great white shark in the Mediterranean. Elsewhere, it describes a 600 kg smalltooth sand tiger shark washing up alive on Greve D’Azette beach in St. Clement on Jersey in June, the first such case for the Channel Islands, and a dolphin found in Mortlake, southwest London, also in June. The piece adds that warmer waters are linked to a “surge” in octopuses off Cornwall and references an emergency by-law approving limits on larger fishing boats. Marine climate researcher Matt Frost is quoted saying there is no need to panic over a few stories.