The sound-emitting tags researchers affixed to the dorsal fins of the first two great white sharks ever tagged in Rhode Island waters will track them for at least 10 years, providing scientists with a rare look at their whereabouts during their wonder years.
Fewer than 300 great whites have been tagged on the East Coast with acoustic transmitters, said Jon Dodd, executive director of the South Kingstown-based Atlantic Shark Institute.
“That’s what makes this work so exciting and so important,” Dodd said Wednesday. “These juvenile white sharks aren’t easy to find, tag and release, so every one of them is really important if we are to understand how size, age, and sex play a role in what they do and where they go.”
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