About 130 days a year, a research vessel leaves Miami and sets out to catch, measure, sample, tag, and release sharks in Florida’s coastal waters. Over the course of a year, they’ll encounter about 600 animals in a process called “<a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/tracking-shark-populations-florida-research?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri?" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fisheries independent monitoring</a>,” an effort to gather data on sea creatures that isn’t skewed by changes in fishing procedures, equipment, or regulations. 
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Dr. Catherine Macdonald is a marine conservation biologist and director of the Shark Research and Conservation Program, part of the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami.
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