22ft of shark makes for a long day, but the company was amazing!

It's the rounder, more "derpy" face that gives it away (that's a technical term)... also note it actually looks like a rock 🤷🏼‍♀️ #science 📷 J. Nielsen

We're wrapping up Year 1 of our UK Blue Shark Tagging Project (www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...), and here are some highlights! -2200 M tags deployed, all by recreational anglers -1750 tag cards returned -17 recaptures reported to date, maps below. -Longest distance: 617 nm in 21 days!

Thanks @ma-sharks.bsky.social for the flashback, this was an incredible necropsy made possible by your dedication to securing these fish when they wash ashore.

This female Porbeagle had 4 developing embryos. They are nourished by feeding on unfertilized eggs. The term for this strategy is Oophagy, meaning 'egg eating'. You can see their yolk stomachs and some of the eggs they were feeding on in these photos. 🦈

My first #Bluesky post is a good one! Happy to announce the publication of "Morphometric Conversions for 33 Shark Species from the Western North Atlantic Ocean", a culmination of thousands of #shark measurements collected over 50+ years! OA here: spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...