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--Apple-Mail-312--213307066 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Last night CTV's late TV News showed some brief footage and the researchers involved, who were Dr. Fred Whoriskey and colleague Brendal Davis. Then today's Chronicle Herald's front page had a good article on this. See http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1145300-new-dal- president-joins-marine-mission-to-tag-blue-sharks . This article includes a video of the operation at sea. Apparently both research projects are just beginning now and have funding? for a few years (4 years and 40 blue sharks, and ? years and 25 great white sharks? Cheers from Jim. Yesterday I wrote: > Marnoon & shark-tagging, July 31/13 > >> My walk ended back at the parking lot at 11:50 a.m., just in time >> to hear Maritime Noon on CBC Radio. The first item on the show >> was about SHARK TAGGING and tracking off Nova Scotia with a sport- >> fishing company that was specially trained to help the research >> team of Dr. Warski? of Dalhousie University. >> >> I think the show's host, Carmen Klassen?, was talking with Dr. >> Warski on the fishing boat, live, as they were catching, tagging, >> and releasing blue sharks, Nova Scotia's most abundant offshore >> shark. The fishers were implanting pinger tags??, and then the >> Ocean Tracking Network can track the movements of such sharks from >> their positioned tracking stations in lots of locations. It was >> mentioned that some of the blues migrate to waters near Sable >> Island, where the attractant is lots of young seals. >> >> Also mentioned was that Massachusetts researcher colleagues have >> caught, tagged, and released numbers of great white sharks, which >> then migrate north and often into Nova Scotia waters (I remember >> reading about them in the Chronicle Herald a few months ago). >> >> Carmen also mentioned that somehow their Web site at www.cbc.ca/ >> maritimenoon/ contains live feeds from the fishing boat, photos on >> the Facebook site, twitters, etc. And check the Web site later >> today or tomorrow for the broadcast or the podcast of the whole show. >> _______________________________________________ >> Nature mailing list >> Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca >> http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ >> nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca > --Apple-Mail-312--213307066 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <div>Last night CTV's late TV News showed some brief footage and the = researchers involved, who were Dr. Fred Whoriskey and colleague Brendal = Davis. </div><div>Then today's Chronicle Herald's front page had a = good article on this. See <a = href=3D"http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1145300-new-dal-president-joins= -marine-mission-to-tag-blue-sharks">http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/114= 5300-new-dal-president-joins-marine-mission-to-tag-blue-sharks</a> . = This article includes a video of the operation at = sea.</div><div><br></div><div>Apparently both research projects are just = beginning now and have funding? for a few years (4 years and 40 blue = sharks, and ? years and 25 great white = sharks?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers from = Jim.</div><div><br></div>Yesterday I wrote:<div><br><div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 12px; "><b>Marnoon & shark-tagging, July = 31/13</b></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = color=3D"#000000"><b><br></b></font></div> <div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; ">My walk ended back at = the parking lot at 11:50 a.m., just in time to hear <b>Maritime Noon</b> = on CBC Radio. The first item on the show was about <b>SHARK = TAGGING and tracking</b> off Nova Scotia with a sport-fishing company = that was specially trained to help the research team of Dr. Warski? of = Dalhousie University.</span></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Tahoma" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Tahoma">I think the show's host, Carmen Klassen?, was talking = with Dr. Warski on the fishing boat, live, as they were catching, = tagging, and releasing<b> blue sharks</b>, Nova Scotia's most abundant = offshore shark. The fishers were implanting pinger tags??, and = then the <b>Ocean Tracking Network</b> can track the movements of such = sharks from their positioned tracking stations in lots of = locations. It was mentioned that some of the blues migrate to = waters near <b>Sable Island</b>, where the attractant is lots of<b> = young seals</b>.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Tahoma" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Tahoma">Also mentioned was that <b>Massachusetts</b> researcher = colleagues have caught, tagged, and released numbers of<b> great white = sharks</b>, which <b>then migrate north</b> and often into Nova Scotia = waters (I remember reading about them in the Chronicle Herald a few = months ago).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Tahoma" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Tahoma">Carmen also mentioned that somehow their Web site at = <b>www.cbc.ca/maritimenoon/</b> contains live feeds from the fishing = boat, photos on the Facebook site, twitters, etc. And check the = Web site later today or tomorrow for the broadcast or the podcast of the = whole show.</font></div></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> = </blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-312--213307066--
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