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Article: Where do I go with biology?(career opportunities for marine biologists)
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- Career World, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Rebecca Hartman was about to give up. It was late at night, and the California fish and game warden was growing tired while searching through boxes at Los Angeles International Airport. But then she cut open one last box and there it was: a small leopard shark swimming around in a bag of water.
Hartman had interrupted a crime in progress--shipping leopard sharks out of state is illegal. She followed the shipment back to the suppliers, put a stop to their criminal activity, and made sure all the leopard sharks were freed.
Before working as a fish and game warden, Hartman studied marine biology at California State University at Long Beach. Like many ...