The shark was tagged by marine research non-profit OCEARCH in the waters off Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.
For example, toward the end of January, Unama'ki's tracker pinged in the far northeast of the Gulf of Mexico, an area where OCEARCH does not normally see these animals. And in October, soon after being tagged, the shark pinged in the Gulf, which is surprisingly early in the year for great whites to be entering these waters.
OCEARCH has been tagging sharks all over the world for more than a decade, and Unama'ki, which means"land of the fog" in the language of the Miꞌkmaq First Nations people, in reference to the area of Cape Breton, is the second largest that the non-profit has ever caught and tagged in the northwest Atlantic region.
When the team aboard the OCEARCH research vessel catch a shark, they tag the animal with a monitoring device while also carrying out a host of other tests before releasing them back into the water. The data collected from the trackers and these tests can provide new insights into the behavior of these animals.
OCEARCH Expedition Leader, Chris Fischer, said in a special video message created in celebration of Earth Day."Our work at OCEARCH is really connected to the topic this year of climate change. All of the white shark tracks we're laying down, and defining the range and movement of these sharks, are the baseline of data for their range. So we will be able to understand in the future if climate change does push their migration a bit more north.
"Also we'll be able to understand from the general health assessment of the sharks, and what the profile of their blood is and the toxins in their system, the amount of microplastics in their system, we are setting down the baseline for those sorts of things so they can be measured in the future to see if climate is impacting those things," he said.
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