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Article: There's A New Predator On The Block: Aquarium hosts another great white shark.
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- The Monterey County Herald (Monterey, CA)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2006
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Byline: Kevin Howe
Sep. 2--"Jaws" returns! Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed a great white shark on exhibit for the second time in its Outer Bay aquarium tank. The young 5-foot-8-inch, 104-pound male shark was caught by hook-and-line gear in Santa Monica Bay on Aug. 17 by aquarium collectors, kept in a 4-million-gallon ocean pen off Malibu, and brought to Monterey on Thursday in a 3,000-gallon mobile life support transport vehicle, according to Jon Hoech, husbandry curator for the aquarium. After the big fish was seen feeding in the ocean pen he said, it was considered fit to travel. The aquarium exhibited a female white shark for 198 days from Sept. ...