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PhD researcher Riley Elliott wrangles a mature blue shark into a PVC sling in order to go about the risky business of attaching a satellite tag to an apex predator. Shark skin is smooth when rubbed from snout to tail, but can take skin off like a belt sander in the opposite direction. Elliott, who is conducting PhD research at the Universityof Auckland on New Zealand’s blue shark population, is more adamant. “Blue sharks can’t be quota-managed because we don’t know anything about them,” he says. “It’s like pulling numbers out of the air.
“The South Pacific is the very last ocean with a healthy population of highly migratory
sharks. But the last of the world’s tuna stocks are here, too.”
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PhD researcher Riley Elliott wrangles a mature blue shark into a PVC sling in order to go about the risky business of attaching a satellite tag to an apex predator. Shark skin is smooth when rubbed from snout to tail, but can take skin off like a belt sander in the opposite direction. Elliott, who is conducting PhD research at the Universityof Auckland on New Zealand’s blue shark population, is more adamant. “Blue sharks can’t be quota-managed because we don’t know anything about them,” he says. “It’s like pulling numbers out of the air.<br /> “The South Pacific is the very last ocean with a healthy population of highly migratory<br /> sharks. But the last of the world’s tuna stocks are here, too.”