[CINC] BASKING SHARK SIGHTINGS

[Shauna Bingham]

Dear CINC Volunteers:
Please help to spread the word that Channel Islands National Marine 
Sanctuary is interested in receiving, as real time as possible, reports 
regarding basking shark sightings in the Santa Barbara Channel. Since 
basking shark sightings are rare, researchers from NOAA Fisheries have 
supplied the sanctuary research department with special basking shark 
tags so that we are able to respond to any reports in our region.

*If you have a basking shark sighting to report:* please be contact *Dr. 
Steve Katz, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Research 
Coordinator, at: Steve.Katz at oaa.gov, or 805-963-3238 ext. 12*, with the 
_date, time, and location_ of the basking shark (and direction of travel 
if that is obvious).

For more information about the basking shark tagging project please 
visit: http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=FRD&id=16327

The sanctuary is also working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cal 
State Long Beach on white shark tagging in the Channel. For more 
information about the white shark tagging research: please visit
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/whiteshark.aspx
http://www.csulb.edu/web/labs/sharklab/research/index.shtml

Let me know if you have any questions and thank you for your support in 
passing the word around to the boat captains and to any others you know 
that spend a lot of time on the water.
--Shauna
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