From Alaska to Japan: Pacific Sleeper Sharks Span the Entire North Pacific

One shark species ranges across an ocean basin wider than continents.

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The North Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth’s ocean basins.

Pacific sleeper sharks are distributed across the North Pacific, from Alaska and the Bering Sea to waters off Japan, covering thousands of kilometers of deep and cold marine territory.

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Few large predators occupy such a vast latitudinal and longitudinal spread while also diving into abyssal depths, making this shark both geographically and vertically expansive.

Its ocean-basin range means environmental changes in polar ice, fisheries pressure, and deep-sea conditions across multiple nations can influence a single, slow-reproducing species.

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