Shark Trails of the Eastern Pacific
By Abbott Peter Klimley
Tracking their subjects by satellite, biologists learn when sharks migrate, where they go, and how they use magnetic clues on the ocean floor for navigation.
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July-August 2015
Volume 103, Number 4
Page 276
DOI: 10.1511/2015.115.276
I remember vividly, although it was more than 30 years ago, my first boat trip in the Bay of La Paz, about 150 kilometers north of Cabo San Lucas. Not a fish was visible in clear blue waters as I motored across the bay toward the long brick-red cliffs of Espíritu Santo Island. Suddenly the surface became turbulent with splashing water here and there: A myriad of fish were feeding on comb jellyfish, shrimp-like euphausids, and other floating zooplankton.
Photograph by Phillip Colla/Oceanlight.com
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