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Young Great White Shark-1
The Aquarium has a new white shark, collected August 12 near Malibu, California, and placed in our Outer Bay exhibit on August 26. This is our fifth white shark. Our first was with us for 6 ½ months; our second, for 4 ½ months; our third, for 5 months; and our fourth, for 11 days. All were successfully returned to the wild.
White Shark Caught August 2009
For the fifth time, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed a young white shark on exhibit. The five-foot, three-inch shark was collected by Aquarium staff August 12 near Malibu, California with the help of a spotter plane and a commercial fishing crew using a purse seine net. The shark remained in an ocean holding pen for almost two weeks while we confirmed that she was feeding and swimming well.
On August 26 we brought her to the Aquarium and placed her in the million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit. We hope she'll remain on exhibit for several months as a way to change public attitudes and promote protection for this magnificent and much-maligned ocean predator.
Young Great White Shark-1
The Aquarium has a new white shark, collected August 12 near Malibu, California, and placed in our Outer Bay exhibit on August 26. This is our fifth white shark. Our first was with us for 6 ½ months; our second, for 4 ½ months; our third, for 5 months; and our fourth, for 11 days. All were successfully returned to the wild.
White Shark Caught August 2009
For the fifth time, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed a young white shark on exhibit. The five-foot, three-inch shark was collected by Aquarium staff August 12 near Malibu, California with the help of a spotter plane and a commercial fishing crew using a purse seine net. The shark remained in an ocean holding pen for almost two weeks while we confirmed that she was feeding and swimming well.
On August 26 we brought her to the Aquarium and placed her in the million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit. We hope she'll remain on exhibit for several months as a way to change public attitudes and promote protection for this magnificent and much-maligned ocean predator.