The Texas Coast and the Gulf of Mexico have plenty of sharks, and they have been in the news a lot over the last few weeks. Not shark attacks, just sharks.
First, there was a report of a shrimper netting a Goblin Shark off Florida.
Aside from being one of the ugliest fish in the sea, Goblins are rare and usually found only in deep water of the Pacific off Japan.
More recently, there is word that two Great White Sharks tagged with radio transmitters last year by scientists from OCEARCH have entered the Gulf and appear to be headed for Texas. These aren’t the first Great Whites in Gulf waters, but they are migratory and usually only come here in winter.
You can track the “pings” of Betsy and Katherine at ocearch.org.
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