CATCH THE DAY ON FIRE I.

Shark grab in wake of LI attacks

Anglers hauled in two sharks near Fire Island on Thursday but returned the creatures to the sea — an act of kindness applauded by one of the two young beachgoers bitten a day earlier.

The fishermen caught the sharks about 100 yards off of Atlantique Beach, then tossed them back into the surf where they belong, a National Park Service spokeswoman said, citing Town of Islip officials.

The 12-year-old girl nipped in a shark attack at nearby Sailors Haven beach cheered the catch-and-release.

“I’m glad they took them back [into the water],” said Lola Pollina, whose right leg was bitten in the waves on Wednesday. “[But] I wish they would put them further out.”

The Islip seventh-grader’s dad echoed the sentiment.

“It was sharks being sharks. I don’t blame the sharks for biting my daughter,” said Philip Pollina. “I would’ve been upset if they killed them.”

Minutes after Pollina was bitten, a 13-year-old boy playing with a boogie board was gnashed at Atlantique Beach.

It was at that beach on Thursday that two men yanked one of the thrashing sharks from the waves by its tail in front of onlookers (above), a video posted by an ABC 7 reporter shows.

The clip doesn’t capture the roughly 4-foot shark’s ultimate return to the sea or any footage of an 8-footer caught nearby, according to ABC.

Experts identified the creature in the clip as a sand tiger shark, a normally docile species that ranges up and down the East Coast, as well as off of Australia and South Africa.

“They’re very infrequently implicated in any attacks on humans,” said Dr. Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research.

Still, sand tiger sharks — which can grow to 11 feet in length — are popular attractions in captivity for their prominent sets of jagged chompers, said Naylor.

“They feature a lot in aquaria . . . [because] they’ve got a spectacular array of very scary teeth,” Naylor said.

The creature that bit the 13year-old boy left behind a shard of one of its own teeth in the wound, which on Thursday was positively identified by officials as belonging to a shark.

It’s still unclear exactly what species the tooth fragment belonged to or whether either of the sharks caught on Thursday was a culprit in the attacks.

Meanwhile, beaches along Fire Island reopened on Thursday after being closed in the wake of the attacks.