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Hello everyone, welcome back to Daytona State for this semester! My name is Josh Munsey and I am researching the possibility of a Scalloped Hammerhead Shark birthing and nursing ground right here in Daytona Beach and Ponce Inlet. I want too see if this area is an important place for the Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, an endangered species, to give birth and for those juvenile sharks to grow up. Since these sharks are endangered this is a very important subject because they need to be protected from the start and if our area is a birthing and nursing ground for them we could have a very important role in protecting this species.
I'm excited to share my research and this experience with you! I will be keeping all of you updated every week or so on my progress and my past research on this topic. If you know of any Scalloped Hammerhead sightings in our area please feel free to contact me at joshua_munsey@daytonastate.edu
Thank you and I will talk to you all of you soon!
Robert M. Section 102 I'm assuming you are using electronic tags on the sharks, what is the effective range of the tags and what is the furthest from the area have you seen them ping?
ReplyDeleteI've known about this "nursing ground" by scalloped hammers myself but have not actually been able to gather information as to why either. Do you think it has to do with the inlet essentially being an estuary where there's a pretty large congregation of fish and these sharks have figured it out and kept coming back?
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Jackie sec. 102. Wow! Great project but I don't understand how will you determine if this is a birthing and nursery ground? What data will you collect and how will you collect it?
ReplyDeleteGiavanna B Sec 101
ReplyDeleteIf Daytona Beach is a nursing ground for these sharks, what are the steps that would need to be taken to preserve them and their habitat so that they can avoid further depletion of their population?
J Ogadah from 101. What threats are there to the safety and wellbeing of the sharks?-- hunting, disease, habitat destruction, etc? And what can be done to help them?
ReplyDeleteSamantha V. OCE 1001 I am really interested in the results of this project. But,
ReplyDeleteDo they hang around their birth spot for any amount of time before venturing further off into the ocean, and do they usually return to their birth spot as they get older?