Can bull sharks live in the great lakes Yes most can like in Lake Erie.?

Answer 1

Probably not. The temperature range of the bull shark is pretty high, and the claims of sharks are unsubstantiated and even occasionally fabricated. If a bull shark happened to enter the Great Lakes, the cold water would probably kill it within a while after entering the lake.

Answer 2

im pretty sure there has been sightings of them a couple times. considering they are murky water sharks. they adapt to any kind of waters.

Bull Sharks have the ability to live, not tolerate, but live in freshwater because of a gland they have called a Rectal Gland, that adjusts the salinity of the sharks body to match that of the water the are in as the gland produces salt in the bull sharks body enabling it to survive in fresh water.

In Austrailia, there have been numerous catches of bull shark pups (babies) on a river above several dams that had been constructed over the years, which means bull sharks are mating in that river.

River Monsters guy Jeremy Wade caught bull sharks at that river as well as other freshwater catches of bull sharks. The world record largest bull shark caught on a rod and reel was caught on a river, 13'6" if I am not mistaken, on the one of these rivers during the filming of the show River Monsters a year or two ago.

Statistically you are more likely to be struck by lightning than get attacked by a shark, but considering the particular shark is #1 on the list of shark attacks on humans, and they have been caught in the Illinois River (take a map, find the Mississippi River in New Orleans, follow it up to the Illinois River).

Myself, after returning from Basic Combat Training in Fort Dix, New Jersey on August 10, 1989, read in my local paper of a mother, watching her kids play in the Delaware River just behind their house, she looks away for a moment, and when she looks back, they are playing around something protruding from the water. She realizes what it was and she freaks out. It was a dead, 6 foot bull shark (recently dead) it was not there one second, then the next it was.