Researchers tag, study sharks in SWFL: ‘We want these big predators in our oceans’

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ER COUNTY, Fla. (WBBH) – Researchers in Florida have been studying sharks – and their impact on our oceans – for decades now. NBC2

Investigator Evan Dean and photographer Kirk Erwin got the opportunity to see that research up close and go shark tagging in the Gulf of Mexico.  ‘W

E SET ‘EM UP. BAIT ‘EM. THEN WE WAIT’ “Ti

de’s really low today,” our captain explains as we leave the docks in Goodland. “We’re going to go offshore.” In b

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autiful southwest Florida, that’s how any good day starts – in a boat out on the water. But

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