Photo of the Week

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“Scientist Andre Debose and volunteer Sarah Larsen work up a blacktip shark.”

September 22, 2014
Can you spot the black tips on the caudal (tail) fin of this blacktip shark?

Photo: Stephen Tomasetti

Today I’ll walk you through the sharks and other fish we’ve caught along leg two of the NOAA <i>Oregon II</i> longline survey. Unfortunately, due to red tide, many sharks had moved out of the areas we were in, so we caught substantially less sharks than usual. But, we still caught quite a few... [Here,] Scientist Andre Debose and volunteer Sarah Larsen work up a blacktip shark, <i>Carcharhinus limbatus</i>. These sharks can be pretty feisty. They are surprisingly strong (even the little ones). You can identify them by the black marking on the tip of their pectoral fins and the lower lobe of their caudal fin." - Stephen Tomasetti
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