Just got an email with the heads up... the article reads like this:
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Posted: 08/27/2009 01:30:09 AM PDT
MONTEREY -- Monterey Bay Aquarium staff brought a young great white shark
from Malibu to Monterey on Wednesday afternoon and put it on display -- the
fifth time the aquarium has given the public a chance to look at the
fearsome fish.
Aquarium staff collected the female 5-foot-3-inch, 80-pound great white off
of Malibu on Aug. 12. It was collected with the help of a spotter plane and
a commercial fishing crew using a purse seine net. It was transferred to a 4
million gallon ocean holding pen off Malibu, where it stayed for nearly two
weeks. Staff observed the shark swimming comfortably and feeding in the pen
nearly a dozen times before bringing it north in a 3,000-gallon "mobile life
support transport vehicle," according to the aquarium. The shark is now in
the million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit.
Aquarium staff hope to keep the great white on exhibit for several months in
an attempt to promote stronger protection for sharks and change the public
attitude about the predator.
The aquarium is only institution in the world to exhibit a white shark for
more than 16 days. In 2004, the first female white shark exhibited in
Monterey was part of the aquarium's Outer Bay exhibit for more than six
months, and was seen by more than a million people.
Since 2002, the aquarium and its partners have collected DNA samples, tagged
and tracked 26 young sharks in the wild. The four sharks previously kept at
the aquarium were tagged and tracked after their release.
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Posted: 08/27/2009 01:30:09 AM PDT
MONTEREY -- Monterey Bay Aquarium staff brought a young great white shark
from Malibu to Monterey on Wednesday afternoon and put it on display -- the
fifth time the aquarium has given the public a chance to look at the
fearsome fish.
Aquarium staff collected the female 5-foot-3-inch, 80-pound great white off
of Malibu on Aug. 12. It was collected with the help of a spotter plane and
a commercial fishing crew using a purse seine net. It was transferred to a 4
million gallon ocean holding pen off Malibu, where it stayed for nearly two
weeks. Staff observed the shark swimming comfortably and feeding in the pen
nearly a dozen times before bringing it north in a 3,000-gallon "mobile life
support transport vehicle," according to the aquarium. The shark is now in
the million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit.
Aquarium staff hope to keep the great white on exhibit for several months in
an attempt to promote stronger protection for sharks and change the public
attitude about the predator.
The aquarium is only institution in the world to exhibit a white shark for
more than 16 days. In 2004, the first female white shark exhibited in
Monterey was part of the aquarium's Outer Bay exhibit for more than six
months, and was seen by more than a million people.
Since 2002, the aquarium and its partners have collected DNA samples, tagged
and tracked 26 young sharks in the wild. The four sharks previously kept at
the aquarium were tagged and tracked after their release.
