OCEARCH founder and expedition leader Chris Fisher will give a short presentation on white shark conservation at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores.
Aquarium admission is not needed to attend the presentation taking place in Soundside Hall. Seating will be limited to the first 130 people who arrive for the program. To tour the facility afterward, regular admission tickets will need to be purchased.
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By connecting multi-disciplinary experts to tag and track white sharks, OCEARCH gathers much-needed and previously missing information about many aspects of white sharks that directly help the conservation of this species and its habitats.
“We are excited to have Chris Fisher visit the Aquarium and share the story of OCEARCH and white shark conservation,” Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium Director Clint Taylor, said in a statement. “Being able to host mission-based presentations like this for our visitors, staff, and volunteers helps inspire the appreciation and conservation of our aquatic environments and animals.”
Since founding OCEARCH in 2007, Fischer’s team has engaged with more than 190 researchers from global institutions, safely tagged more than 400 animals, and worked globally with partners across varying sectors. OCEARCH has advanced science through 75 peer-reviewed papers, 20 of which Fischer is a co-author.
The OCEARCH shark tracker launched in 2013, allowing nearly 2 million annual users to learn about sharks while tracking them across the planet in near-real-time.
