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New exhibits at the Atlantic White Shark Center in Chatham include how media and "Jaws" affect public perceptions, and stoke fear, about sharks.

To illustrate to a reporter what that might look like, he referenced “Jaws.” “When Quint went to shoot the shark, he was out on the end of the pulpit of his boat,” Skomal explained in a phone call with The Daily News. The similarities between the fictional Quint and Skomal end there. Far from a shark hunter, Skomal’s a biologist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and an internationally-recognized shark expert. In 2009, he and John Chisholm were the first to successfully tag and track white sharks — the name preferred by scientists over “great white sharks” —...

Wilmington, NC, June 03, 2021 --(PR.com)-- Blue Shark Vodka has partnered with The Atlantic Shark Institute to launch a shark-tagging mission this summer ...

Atlantic Shark Institute to study 5 shark species May 31, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The arrival of summer in Rhode Island also means the arrival of sharks. Jon Dodd, executive director of the Atlantic Shark Institute in South Kingstown, hopes to learn more about five species of shark by catching and tagging several, dropping video cameras into the water to observe them in their natural habitat, and monitoring acoustic equipment to get a better idea of their travel patterns. “These sharks are critical to the health of our oceans in a wide variety of ways, and t...

The Atlantic Shark Institute in Wakefield will use video cameras, acoustic receivers and tags to study sharks this summer.