WATCH: More Videos Capture Sharks At Jersey Shore

It’s become a bigger sport than shark fishing itself.

In fact, it’s almost becoming a Jersey Shore pastime: Pulling out your iPhone and getting a crisp video image of a shark floundering on the beach, or snagging a chum bucket from a boat.

Sharks have made a re-emergence at the Jersey Shore over the past year. And even if they haven’t expanded their population, they’re popping up on Youtube videos, Twitter feeds and various other social media.

In recent weeks, Twitter and Youtube have provided a long list of videos captured by fishermen (see below) wrestling with sharks over the past year.

With that additional exposure has come some panic. Beaches in Cape May County and elsewhere have called swimmers out of the water until the shark fins disappear from their water.

The Marine Mammal Standing Center in Brigantine has acknowledged that the sightings are more common than usual. But Robert Schoelkopf, director of the center, said people should not be so alarmed by videos of sharks.

Experts say shark sightings are an “integral” part of beach life, according to an nj.com report, and Jersey Shore beachgoers can sometimes spot tiger and sand tiger sharks, bull sharks, makos and dogfish, with sporadic appearances from whale and basking sharks.

George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History, said the deeper waters off the Jersey Shore serves as a “migratory nexus” for ocean animals, a mixing area where you get “wintertime stuff and summer stuff based on water temperature,” according to the report.

But Schoelkopf suggested that technology - the ability to capture a shark on an iPhone video and easily post it to the Internet - also could be fanning the flames of hysteria like never before.

Photo: Youtube video of Shark in Sea Isle City.