[WETPIXEL.COM] PIT Gill Netting Overview
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A crack volunteer team is assembled

Constructing a shark pen

Constructing a shark pen

Securing the shark pen entrance

Fixing gill nets is an integral part of the gill netting process

Getting the boats ready for an evening of gill netting

Setting a gill net

Doing a net check on foot

Moving a shark from the nets to a transport box

The tagging team, ready to work up sharks

Doing a pen check

Taking salinity and temperature readings

Transferring a shark from a net boat to the tagging boat

Measuring a shark

Inserting a PIT tag

Taking a DNA sample

Weighing a shark

The dinner crew brings food!

The shark pen, with caught sharks in it

A juvenile lemon sharks takes food

A lemon shark leaves the pen

Lemon sharks leaving the pen
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