Posted on 05/24/2021 7:04:41 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
If any tagged great white sharks make it into Cape Cod waters in time for the Memorial Day weekend, scientists will be ready as the complete array of acoustic receivers has now been deployed.
“It feels great to get these acoustic receivers out,” shark scientist Greg Skomal with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries said as he recently set the equipment into position with Megan Winton of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
“Shark season!” he added with a grin in the recently posted Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s video.
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app will soon start to light up with shark alerts and detections, as the great whites return to the region this summer. Last year, 118 individual sharks were detected, for a total of 134,631 detections.
The Sharktivity app also has a section where people can report a shark sighting, and the app has an unconfirmed shark sighting from late last week.
In one posting, “6-7 foot White Shark jumped fully out of water,” someone reported in Cape Cod Bay between Sandwich and Dennis on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
—”Massachusetts. is ready with the hydrophone buoys in place.”
Listening for ...
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