Young Tiger Shark Recap!

Our team recaptured a young female tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) this month when we were out with the awesome Ocean First Institute. This beautiful girl was originally caught by our team on March 15. Since that time she grew 22 cm! Check out before/after pictures below. 

From March 2019, the first time we saw this beautiful shark. One of our students take a small fin clip for genetics research.

Here we see our tiger shark friend a few months later. Here a student reads off the NOAA cooperative tagging program number for the person writing down data!