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>> right. yeah, were tagging she is sharks to learn more about their population and their movements and, all about, you know, trying to study their population in general. theyre a threatened species. so were interested in a lot of different aspects of that shark in our area. jon: so you had put a small fish on a hook, dropped it overboard and that fish was consumed by a smaller shark. that is the unfortunate critter thats, well on the hook and inside the mouth of the sand tiger? >> right. thats,...

Happily now? >> yep. we havent recaptured it or anything like that. the tags we put on that one was different identification tags but we have other sharks in the bay that have acoustic tags inside of them that transmit their location to us and we follow them around throughout the summer and then throughout the rest of the year, using different types of technology. and one of the operate things about this photo and all the attention it is getting how inspiring it has been not only to young kids w...