Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Last month, Aquarium scientist Dr. Ryan Knotek and a team traveled to Jekyll Island, Georgia, to study what happens to recreationally-caught spinner sharks after release. 🦈
Spinner sharks are a large coastal species caught by recreational anglers in the Southeast—these sharks are known for their high-flying acrobatics during capture! Working with a local fishing charter, the Aquarium team set out to catch and satellite tag spinner sharks. These tags track the movement of sharks in the weeks following release, detach, and transmit the data to us via satellite. The data will help us determine what happened to these sharks and provide us with a better understanding of the overall impact that recreational fishing has on spinner sharks.
Part of this study also involves training charter captains to independently collect and tag sharks on regular charters with the public. Collaborating with these charters is essential to the success of this study, making it possible to deploy all of our tags under real-world fishing conditions and practices
Special thanks to NOAA Fisheries Cooperative Research Program for supporting this work + our partner charters, Georgia Sport Fishing Charters!
#SharkWeek #Sharks #SpinnerSharks #SharkResearch #SharkTagging
Last month, Aquarium scientist Dr. Ryan Knotek and a team traveled to Jekyll Island, Georgia, to study what happens to recreationally-caught spinner sharks after release. 🦈
Spinner sharks are a large coastal species caught by recreational anglers in the Southeast—these sharks are known for their high-flying acrobatics during capture! Working with a local fishing charter, the Aquarium team set out to catch and satellite tag spinner sharks. These tags track the movement of sharks in the weeks following release, detach, and transmit the data to us via satellite. The data will help us determine what happened to these sharks and provide us with a better understanding of the overall impact that recreational fishing has on spinner sharks.
Part of this study also involves training charter captains to independently collect and tag sharks on regular charters with the public. Collaborating with these charters is essential to the success of this study, making it possible to deploy all of our tags under real-world fishing conditions and practices
Special thanks to NOAA Fisheries Cooperative Research Program for supporting this work + our partner charters, Georgia Sport Fishing Charters!
#SharkWeek #Sharks #SpinnerSharks #SharkResearch #SharkTagging
