NatGeo Stories: Monitoring sharks in the middle of the Pacific

Dropping BRUVs to monitor sharks. Credits: Pelayo Salinas de León/Charles Darwin Foundation

Filming large schools of sharks at Darwin & Wolf islands. These islands were declared sanctuary due to the large biomass of sharks. How do we know? The shark team at Charles Darwin Foundation uses underwater video monitoring surveys to understand and assess sharks aggregations… Read the story of the team’s week-long sharky trip at this far-away sanctuary..

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