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First Birth-Alert Tag deployed in a Caribbean reef shark

First Birth-Alert Tag deployed in a Caribbean reef shark

Publish Date: 19 Jun 2026 02:40 PM


(CNS): The Cayman Islands Department of Environment (DoE) Shark Research Team has confirmed a major scientific milestone for local shark conservation: the first Birth-Alert-Tag (BAT) deployment in a pregnant two-metre Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi). Since the start of fieldwork in April this year, the Shark Research Team, in collaboration with Oregon State University’s (OSU)
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