The diet of the adult Grey Nurse Shark
consists of a wide range of fish, other sharks and rays, squids, crabs
and lobsters. In Australia it is likely that the Grey Nurse Shark diet
consists of species such as pilchards, jewfish, tailor, bonito, moray
eels, wrasses, sea mullet, flatheads, yellowtail kingfish, small sharks,
squid and crustaceans. Observations also suggest that schools of Grey
Nurse Sharks can feed cooperatively by concentrating schooling prey
before feeding on them. It is important to note that many of the species
that comprise the Grey Nurse Sharks diet are also harvested by
commercial, recreational and spearfishing interests, which is one of the
main reasons that a number of commercial fisherman are not too friendly
to grey nurse they happen to catch..
