The NYPD is working with the FDNY and parks department to monitor the waters for sharks near public beaches.

Michael Kemper, Chief of Transit for the NYPD, announced that they will “have drone deployments at every beach. We’re going to be at Coney Island, Rockaway beach, Orchard beach and Staten Island south beach. Drone deployments will be from 0900 to dusk. Obviously, if they extend any hours or if they make any changes, us as a police department will go with those changes, stay as late as we need to just to make New Yorkers safe.”

This comes after a woman was injured from a shark bite on Monday evening in the Rockaways. While shark attacks are very rare - this was the first in 70 years - shark sightings in city waters have increased in recent years.

Hans Walters, a shark expert and the curator of the animal department at the New York Aquarium, joined “News All Day” to talk more about this.

He says shark attacks are incredibly low — just 57 around the world last year. In comparison, millions of sharks were killed in fishing efforts worldwide, so humans are much more of a danger to them than they are to us.

Walters reminds us that “New York is a city of islands” and that when we enter the ocean, “we’re entering their home.”

He believes people should still enjoy going into the water. If you see a shark, calmly exit the water. And if you see bait fish in the water, for example, the Atlantic Menhaden, which is like a small herring, steer clear because that is food for sharks.

For more information on sharks or the aquarium, to go NYAquarium.com.