Tagging and tracking White Shark's at Año Nuevo Island, Since 1992.

This is a rough draft video (sound is really home-made) taped by J. Robinson (Robinson/Sulllivan Productions) during 2001-02 season (when filming was still allowed) while we were in our second year of our archival satellite transmitter study we intitiated in year 2000. This was the follow up effort to an earlier collaborative campaign with UC to track the sharks locally with the ultra-sonic acoustic transmitters during the 1997 thru 1999 period. ID tags attached in the mid 1990s are still observed at the island by the research team. During our 2000-2001 season's we were excited to see our previous speculations verified regarding the white sharks moving offshore into open ocean, deep sea primarily between May and August and return typically during the fall and winter seasons. Beginning in 2005 we were allowed to participate in the TOPP programs headquartered which is situated in Monterey.

http://www.pelagic.org/topp/topp.html

Between 2005 and 2010 the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation succeeded in tagging an additional 35 white sharks with archival satellite and ultrasonic acoustic transmitters as well as two devices donated to the PSRF by Microwave telemetry. The PSRF team working at ANI coauthored a recent manuscript in the Royal Society of Biology detailing long range movements, site fidelity and genetic profiles of this segment of the eastern pacific white shark population in collaboration with TOPP program and Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station and UC's Klimley labs,

The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation is an original sponsor of white shark protected status in California and subsequently within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary as well as the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.

The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation has been conducting a long term monitoring study of white sharks at ANI since 1992, with tagging and photo ID work commencing in 1995.

For more information please visit the PSRF website:

http://www.pelagic.org/research/index.html