
Want To Track A Ton Of Sharks In Texas? Just Click Here
Almost 30 sharks, various species, off the coast of Texas have been tagged and are now pinging away all over the Gulf of Mexico. Or, Gulf Of America ...Gulf of Texas ... whatever.
We'll go with Gulf of Sharks for now as the Coastal Conservation Association and the Center for Sportfish Science and Conservation just fired up a new website called Fin Finder that allows you to track these bad boys throughout their travels.
Fin Finder will show you where all the tagged sharks are at any given moment. Wake up to go the bathroom at 4am, see where "Oz Tiger" is chilling. Nothing to do at that red light? Check in on "Buc-ee" or any of the others. There are over 25 with more coming.
The last time I checked, all of the tagged sharks were somewhere in the gulf except for one, "Pico". He was way the hell up the eastern seaboard, off the Georgia coast.
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"So Fin Finder is a new shark tracker that came from a collaboration between us here at the Sportfish Center and CCA, which is a conservation group," Dr. Kesley Gibson Banks, associate research scientist at the Harte Research Institute, told Chron. "That has allowed the science—which is us tagging sharks—to be put up on the web for any interested parties to also watch where those sharks are going." - chron.
Once on the website, you can learn all kinds of things about each shark. Things like its location, sex, size, distance traveled and how they got their names. (Yes, Buc-ee was named after the guy who started the famous, Texas Buc-ee's franchise.)
Just go to the map and type in the name of the shark, (get that by holding your cursor over the dot), you're interested in.
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