Early in the morning on Monday February 22nd the shark team in collaboration with the flats program packed up a van full of gear for a days worth of research and traveled North to Savannah Sound. Program managers and interns set creek modified survey lines in the sound, for the first time as a part of an ongoing lemon shark study conducted by the Shark Research and Conservation Program at the Cape Eleuthera Institute. This study has been underway for just over a year and focuses primarily on the abundance and distribution of juvenile lemon sharks in tidal creeks around South Eleuthera. In effort to expand the scope of the study, the team is venturing to new areas, like Savannah Sound. Continue reading