Another GWS ON THE LOOSE!!!!

Down south 

http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_19190594

   
Monterey Bay Aquarium staffers to release great white shark into wild

Santa Cruz Sentinel staff reports
Posted: 10/25/2011 01:16:03 PM PDT
Updated: 10/25/2011 02:08:50 PM PDT

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A great white shark swims inside the Open Sea exhibit at... (David Royal, Monterey County Herald)

MONTEREY -- The sixth great white shark ever exhibited at the Monterey Bay Aquarium will get to stretch its fins soon, as it is headed back to the wild.

The young male shark brought to Monterey on Aug. 31 was being transported to ocean waters south of Point Conception Tuesday by animal care staff.

The shark was moved out of the exhibit Tuesday morning and was scheduled to be released offshore during the afternoon.

The decision to release the shark after 55 days on exhibit was based on recent changes in how he was navigating in the exhibit, according to Jon Hoech, director of husbandry for the aquarium.

"These decisions are always governed by our concern for the health and well-being of these animals under our care," Hoech said in a statement. "It became clear that it was time to release him."

Like the five other great white sharks that the aquarium has kept on exhibit for periods up to six-and-a-half months, the newest shark will carry a tracking tag that will document its movements in the wild. The pop-up tag will collect information on where he travels, the depths he dives to and the water temperatures he favors for the first 180 days he's back in the wild. The tag is scheduled to pop free in late April and transmit the data back to a research team via satellite.

The young shark, a 4-foot-8-inch male weighing 43.2 pounds, was collected outside Marina del Rey on August 18 by aquarium staff.

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I'm sure he'll perish like the others before him.

Poor Julie, she only got 2 months of boosted ticket sales to her fish prison from her personal commercial GWS fishing indiustry.

In other words - our GWS is about to die, and no way in hell are we going to let it die in our aquarium.

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