Sharks

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime, goes the old adage. But even more important is the experience level of the fisher — the better the fisher, the better the chance the shark on the other end of the line will live to swim another day.

A doctoral student in the Shark Biology & Fisheries Science Lab at Texas A&M University at Galveston is studying the movement and habitat patterns of bull sharks in Galveston Bay with support from Texas Sea Grant's Grants-In-Aid of Graduate Research Program.

Shark populations can fluctuate widely, and largely depend upon a number of factors including fishing pressure. A Texas A&M University at Galveston researcher hopes his project can help provide additional information on how fishing activities impact sharks in the Gulf of Mexico.

Two Texas A&M University at Galveston researchers have been awarded grants to conduct work on marine science and marine biology projects.

Dr. David Wells is an assistant professor and head of the Shark Biology and Fisheries Science Lab at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

In one of the most ambitious projects of its kind, a Texas A&M University at Galveston researcher hopes to tag as many as 50 sharks in the Gulf of Mexico to learn more about their feeding habits and behavior.