Researchers say a juvenile shortfin mako shark tagged more than eight months ago off Ocean City Maryland is tracking a highly unusual path directly south in the mid-Atlantic – a fast track to a mystery destination. “I’ve never seen one act quite like this one,” said Dr. Mahmood Shivji, Director of Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) and Save our Seas Research Center. “The mako is displaying an amazingly directed movement – as if this shark has a specific destination it wants to get to in a hurry,” he added, pointing to a computer screen showing the nearly straight vertical path of a young male mako dubbed I-NSU. The public can also follow I-NSU as well as other tagged sharks in near real-time, courtesy of an interactive online website set-up by GHRI (www.nova.edu/ocean/ghri/tracking/). Shivji and ...![Sport Fishing Mag]()
