The proposed federal bill would ban chumming, or dumping fish guts and chunks into the sea to attract sharks.

The legislation is headed to the Senate, and if enacted, it would prohibit the use of bait to attract sharks in federal waters off the Florida coast, though it would include an exception for shark ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in February 2025. Michael Patrick O’Neill went from swimming with corporate sharks to real ones. He turned a hobby of underwater photography into an ...