Researchers feud over shark studies off Cape Cod
A battle is brewing on the high seas off Cape Cod between two groups of researchers trying to tag and track the growing population of great white sharks.
Biologists from the state Division of Marine Fisheries, with the help of the non-profit Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, are in the third year of a five-year population study of the oceangoing predators.
But the experts fear their work could be tainted by another group, saying its methods of attracting and capturing sharks could alter the animals’ behavior.
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