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Back flaps, belly flaps, and whole, frozen sharks are shipped overseas.
| | Dogfish can be extremely abundant in coastal NC waters. | | A tagged shark - Floy tags are inserted into the musculature near the dorsal fin. |
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Sharks waiting to be processed on the cooperative winter tagging cruise (2008). | | A baby shark, prematurely born in the net due to the stress of trawling on the mother. | | Processing sharks on the 2009 cooperative winter tagging cruise. |
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| Commercial fishermen play a vital role in the success of this research. | | A shark waiting to be tagged. | | Dr Roger A. Rulifson photographs a shark. |
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| Tina Moore (NC DMF) holding a spiny dogfish on a past CWT cruise. | | Kelly Register's MSc thesis (NC DMF, Rulifson lab alumni) included a population estimate of coastal spiny dogfish populations. | | Divers (ECU Diving & Water Safety Office) assisted with the deployment of acoustic tracking equipment off the NC coastline. |
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| Graduate student Garry Wright (ECU, Biology) has assisted with previous work and is developing a project with Dr Rulifson. Garry has also completed research on dogfish pups. | | Fisherman Dewey Hemilright (Wanchese, NC) has been co-PI on several dogfish projects with Dr Rulifson. | | Graduate student Jennifer Cudney-Burch (ECU, Coastal Resources Management) is working to characterize spiny dogfish migration patterns using exisiting datasets, acoustic telemetry, and fishermen TEK. |
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The North Carolina spiny dogfish fishery ( late 1990s). Photo courtesy of Chris Hickman | | The North Carolina spiny dogfish fishery (late 1990s). Photo courtesy of Chris Hickman. | | An "old fashioned" net reel used to process gillnet catches. |
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Commercial fishing vessels in Virginia. Photo by B. Sanders. | | Spiny dogfish collected by Virginia commercial fishermen (photo by B. Sanders). | | Commercial fisherman Chris Hickman, a co-PI on several dogfish projects, works out of Hatteras, NC. |
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| Spiny dogfish harvested off Virginia (photo by B. Sanders). | | Same day, but a different angle. Bluefish are often captured with spiny dogfish (photo by B. Sanders). | | Haddock fishermen off Nova Scotia usually encounter spiny dogfish in July. (photo by J. Atwood) |
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Commercial fishermen onboard the F/V Lady Jennifer out of Nova Scotia, Canada. (photo by J. Atwood) | | Eggs and partially developed pups from a female spiny dogfish collected off the NC coast (photo by J. Cudney) | | Pups with yolk sacs attached. Were from a female spiny dogfish collected off the NC coast. |
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Near-term pups without an external yolk sac from a female spiny dogfish collected near Diamond Shoals, NC | | A spiny dogfish angled from the Cape Lookout Bight on June 1, 2010. | | Graduate student Dan Zapf holds a smooth dogfish sampled in the Cape Lookout Bight. |
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| Sampling gear ready for spiny and smooth dogfish. | | Graduate student Chuck Bangley weighs a spiny dogfish collected near Cape Lookout, North Carolina. | | This pup came from a large, pregnant female collected behind Cape Lookout, NC in June 2010. She had five pups and four eggs in her ovaries. |
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| Graduate student Chuck Bangley removes the stomach of a spiny dogfish to investigate dietary contents. | | | | Would you like to contribute photos or pictures to the spinydogfish.org website? Please email them to Jennifer (jlc0213@ecu.edu) and she will be in touch with you about publishing them online. |
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