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Nearly 30 dead dogfish sharks mysteriously floated onto the sands of the Jersey Shore Wednesday morning, stunning locals who stumbled upon the disturbing sight.<\/p>\n

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The graveyard of marine predators popped up along a stretch of beach in Sea Isle City, according to ABC.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a sudden, you start seeing a concentration of small sand sharks, and I thought, \u2018Well, this is odd,’\u201d said Michelle Greenling, who saw the creatures scattered across 10 blocks while out walking Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Experts say the small sharks \u2014 between 3 and 5 feet long \u2014 swim in schools ranging from hundreds to thousands.\u00a0The cause of their deaths remains unknown.<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple of things it could be,\u201d Stephen Nagiewicz, a marine scientist with Stockton University, told ABC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something in the water, and they got sick and died. That\u2019s probably unlikely since people haven\u2019t been affected.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dogfish, which typically weigh between 8 and 22 pounds, were most likely caught by fishermen and later dumped back into the ocean, Nagiewicz added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey dumped them over the side or lost a net with all the things in there by accident, and all those sharks just floated up on the beach with the tides,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dogfish are relatively common along the Jersey Shore and along the eastern coasts of the Americas.<\/p>\n

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They migrate north and closer to the shore in the summer and south and offshore in the winter, according to Conserve Wildlife New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Because of their abundance, fishermen often call them \u201cjunk fish\u201d because they eat bait that targets other species.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But some dogfish populations have declined over the years after becoming accidental by-catch for commercial and recreational fishermen.<\/p>\n

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Preservation did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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