Just a few days earlier than the beginning of Shark Week, the area’s prime nice white shark skilled has efficiently tagged the primary sharks of the season.
Greg Skomal, an achieved marine biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, was out tagging apex predators alongside Cape Cod on Thursday.
The first shark that Skomal tagged was swimming a few mile north of a well-liked Truro seaside on the Outer Cape.
“Let the shark tagging commence!” the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy tweeted on Friday. “Yesterday, @GregSkomal of the @MassDMF working with the AWSC, tagged 2 sharks!
“This video shows the first shark tagged of the day (and season)!” the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy added. “It was a 10 foot white shark that was tagged about a mile north of Head of the Meadow beach.”
Let the shark tagging begin! Yesterday, @GregSkomal of the @MassDMF working with the AWSC, tagged 2 sharks! This video exhibits the primary shark tagged of the day(and season)! It was a ten foot white shark that was tagged a few mile north of Head of the Meadow seaside. pic.twitter.com/PHGmN2mQcI
— Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (@A_WhiteShark) July 21, 2023
Meanwhile on Thursday, a shark alert went out for an ideal white noticed close to High Head Beach in North Truro.
This is the time of yr when nice white sharks prowl alongside the Cape, as they hunt for seals near shore.
Local shark researchers during the last decade-plus have tagged greater than 300 nice whites. The scientists estimate that 800 to 900 particular person sharks have visited the Cape’s waters in a latest 5-year interval — making the Cape one of many largest and doubtlessly densest space for excellent whites on the earth.
Discovery’s Shark Week kicks off on Sunday with practically 20 new hours of applications that function the apex predators, together with “Belly of the Beast: Feeding Frenzy,” which can present a primary time, close-up take a look at an ideal white shark feast — captured by researchers with cameras inside a whale carcass decoy.
Shark Week may also embody “Cocaine Sharks,” which reveals what occurs to sharks that presumably feed on cocaine and different unlawful medication dumped in South Florida waters.
“For decades rumors of cocaine-fueled sharks have been whispered throughout the fishing community,” the present’s description reads. “Shark expert Tom Hird travels to the Florida Keys to investigate what happens with the sharks coming in contact with the most notorious drug on the planet.”
In “Jaws vs The Meg,” the present explores how nice white sharks might have induced the megalodon’s extinction.
And in “Monsters of the Bermuda Triangle,” a porbeagle shark tagged off New England vanishes within the Bermuda Triangle.
“Evidence suggests it could be a monstrous predator,” the present’s description reads. “Dr. James Sulikowski and a team of scientists dive into treacherous depths to uncover the truth behind an apex predator.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”