There's an interesting article today in Soundings Trade Only about researchers tracking a mako shark that's making a beeline for the Mid-Atlantic.
"Researchers say a juvenile shortfin mako shark that was tagged more than eight months ago off Ocean City, Md., is tracking a highly unusual path directly south in the mid-Atlantic — a fast track to a mystery destination.
“'I've never seen one act quite like this one,' said Mahmood Shivji, director of Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Instituteand Save our Seas Research Center. “The mako is displaying an amazingly directed movement — as if this shark has a specific destination it wants to get to in a hurry,” he added, pointing to a computer screen showing the nearly straight vertical path of a young male mako dubbed I-NSU."
Track the shark (I-NSU) here. Check out the one-minute video below about shark tagging.
Monday, February 24, 2014 - 12:00
There's an interesting article today in Soundings Trade Only about researchers tracking a mako shark that's making a beeline for the Mid-Atlantic.
"Researchers say a juvenile shortfin mako shark that was tagged more than eight months ago off Ocean City, Md., is tracking a highly unusual path directly south in the mid-Atlantic — a fast track to a mystery destination.
“'I've never seen one act quite like this one,' said Mahmood Shivji, director of Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Instituteand Save our Seas Research Center. “The mako is displaying an amazingly directed movement — as if this shark has a specific destination it wants to get to in a hurry,” he added, pointing to a computer screen showing the nearly straight vertical path of a young male mako dubbed I-NSU."
Track the shark (I-NSU) here. Check out the one-minute video below about shark tagging.