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Article: Monterey Bay Aquarium Puts Young White Shark in Million-Gallon Outer Bay Exhibit.
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- AScribe Science News Service
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- September 15, 2004
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Byline: Monterey Bay Aquarium
MONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Monterey Bay Aquarium placed a small white shark on exhibit Tuesday evening (Sept. 14), three weeks after she was caught inadvertently in a commercial fishing net in Southern California. The aquarium hopes to keep her on long-term exhibit - and, in the process, to change public attitudes and promote protection of this feared and much-maligned ocean predator.
The young shark, a 4-foot, 4-inch female weighing 62 pounds, was brought north Tuesday in a 3,000-gallon mobile life support transport vehicle. She had been held since August 20 in a 4-million-gallon ocean pen off ...