Christopher Mills, UConn Marine Sciences Department technician, works to remove a hook from a sandbar shark he caught while fishing in the waters east of Montauk, Long Island, in August 2022 so the shark could be released. Photo: Calvin Hansen
Mills maneuvers a sandbar shark onshore after catching it while fishing on a Connecticut beach on an August evening in 2023. Once the hook was removed, the shark was released. Photo: Calvin Hansen
A spiny dogfish, a type of shark found in Long Island Sound, is captured by a baited remote underwater video (BRUV) camera. Photo: Peter Auster
A great white shark closes its jaws around a seal in the waters off Cape Cod, MA. Photo: Breanna Racico
A baby white shark is hooked by a fishing line off Montauk, Long Island. Photo: Breanna Racico
A microphotograph of a transversal section of a black sea bass sagittal otolith. This structure in the inner ear of fish was used in the research project to count and measure annual increments. Image: D. Riser
A series of microphotographs of transversal black sea bass otolith sections showing examples of specimens aged 0 – 11 years. Image: D.Riser, arranged by Hannes Baumann
