It may be a few weeks until shark week, but Florida's east coast is already a hive of activity.
A large great white shark was tagged by OCEARCH and pinged off the coast of St. Lucie County. There are a few questions raised by his presence.
There is a white shark in the Gulf Stream.
The main food source for the sharks is gray seals in Massachusetts.
The sharks are feeding or breeding.
There is a shark.
There is an 11-foot great white shark.
Florida is the world's shark bite capitol.
Bull sharks can be caught a long way up the river.
No one knows the answers to these questions. It's time to pay attention to a great white shark.
OCEARCH fitted a satellite tag on the back of the great white shark that it caught off Scatarie Island during its No va Scotia expedition in September 2020. There is a shark.
Is 13 feet long and 1,437 lbs.
His name was near where he was tagged.
Since he was tagged, he has traveled almost 19 thousand miles.
The first shark was tagged in 2020.
There are five sharks near Scatarie Island in two years.
When he pinged, it was not known where he was now. He was about 13 miles off the coast. He could be chasing other fish, such as greater amberjack, which live on reefs there, or other sharks that are staging offshore to take advantage of turtles getting ready to nest
Florida's coast is known for being the center of sea turtle nest. Most of the sea turtles lay their eggs in the western ocean.
Most of the 96,000 nest in Florida were in east coast counties. Palm Beach had the highest number of people with 25,880.
Grant Gilmore, a marine scientist at Vero Beach, said that eastern Florida has more tiger sharks than anywhere else in the world.
Is this a place to eat on tiger sharks?
The great white shark, tagged by OCEARCH, made a pass along Florida's coast in January and also appeared in the gulf.
Researchers thought the shark was pregnant due to its behavior.
"At her size, she's probably starting to approach sexual maturity, and if not, she will be in a few years or so," said OCEARCH chief scientist Bob Hueter. She spent a couple of months cruising around Canadian waters, feeding on high-energy food like seals, before she came south in the early part of the winter.
He said that if you followed her track, you could see that she made a steady progression down the coast.
White sharks can't eat seals, but they can eat whale carcasses, other sharks and fish that can be caught along the edges of the gulf stream.
The southern part of their feeding range is from Cape Hatteras to the Florida Keys. They are a common wintertime visitor to Florida waters, according to the research.
We would hear more from her. The shark pinged for a long time in the gulf. On May 11 she pinged off the coast of North Carolina.
OCEARCH has hosted 200 scientists who have participated in 43 expeditions and tagged over 432 animals. The organization does something.
Each shark has a full health assessment done.
The study of microbiological studies.
The exposure to microplastics is associated with toxins.
Three different tags are used to study movement, temperature and depth.
Social media is one of the best ways to inform the public.
A number of the great white sharks tagged by the company have their own handles on social media.
In the past, Ocearch has used humor or photos of shark adventures that went viral.
The Ocearch can we talk about how Breton looks like he's drawing a shark?
From his first ping in 2020 off Scatarie Island to his latest ping June 6 in New York, his track history resembles a shark.
Is it possible that you see it as well?
Ed Killer writes about the outdoors. He has a newsletter at profile.tcpalm.com/newsletters/manage. Email Ed at ed.killer@tcpalm.com if you'd like to befriend him.
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