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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” —...

Shark research season has begun in Rhode Island Carlos Muñoz © Jon Dodd A great white shark prowls the Atlantic Ocean. PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island shark researchers who normally split the year trolling the state’s Atlantic coastline for roving white sharks spent last season in their office, like castaways, because of COVID-19 restrictions. “It really had us trying to work triple time to get some of the stuff done,” said Jon Dodd, executive director at the Wakefield-based Atlantic Shark Institute. “We simply said the (health) risk was too great. That’s OK, because...