Renowned fish ecologist sees future of Indian River Lagoon sharks in our own backyards

Renowned fish ecologist sees future of Indian River Lagoon sharks in our own backyards

Source: florida today

7/12/2024

Likely, no one knows more about Indian River Lagoon sharks and other fish in our realm than Grant Gilmore.

The senior scientist at Estuarine, Coastal and Ocean Science Inc., Vero Beach, has studied all sorts of finned creatures in our coastal waters for about a half century, including those red-in-tooth sharks that grace our waters.

There is a baseline from which to measure how those sharks are doing, Gilmore says: the first serious inshore shark survey in the United States conducted in the 1970s in Melbourne Beach by Jon Dodrill for his master's thesis at Florida Institute of Technology (where Gilmore got his Ph.D.).

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