Doc at Pen

Crew

Collect shark

Doc handles animal

Doc with lemon shark

Lemon shark close up

Jax scans for pit tag

Jax records data

Lemon Shark Tagging Project

Doc holds shark

blood work performed

Close up of blood work

Doc Gruber handles anima

Doc Gruber overseas shark work at remote pen.

Dedicated crew help herd sharks to one end to be netted.

Team member catches individuals and hands them up to Doc.

Doc Gruber moves juvenile lemon shark to study tender.

Unlike other sharks lemon sharks do not stand up to long periods of human handling.

Animal is moves to tank to have data recorded.

Tiburon staff scan for Doc Grubers PIT tag located under surface of skin.

Each tag has a uique ID number which helps track the shark in later years when recaptured.

Measurements are made, recorded and blood work is done on the sensitive subjects.

Care is taken to keep the mortality rate as low as possible.

Blood is draw to help in long term studies.

Another angle of the blood being drawn form the lemon shark.

After work is completed the animal is returned to the wild.