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Casselberry
[ kas-uhl-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]
noun
- a city in central Florida.
Example Sentences
"I sat in that chair for two months," says Casselberry, "watching all day long through binoculars and a camera with a long lens as people fished. Every time someone hooked tarpon, I recorded the time of day, the current, whether the tide was going in or out, which boats were fishing, how many anglers were in the area, how long it took them to bring the tarpon to their boat and whether or not a hammerhead ate the fish. I saw a total of 394 tarpon hooked."
In this case, lead author Grace Casselberry, a postdoctoral researcher at UMass Amherst, and her colleagues deployed 16 receivers in a gridded array in the Bahia Honda Channel.
"It has taken 30 years to get the hammerheads to the point where they are just starting to recover," says Casselberry, "and all that work could be undone if we start killing sharks indiscriminately."
Casselberry and her colleagues suggest that anglers use fishing gear that will allow them to land tarpon faster, thus reducing fight times and the opportunity for depredation.
"We are advocating for anglers to think of themselves as part of the ocean ecosystem, rather than working against it," says Casselberry.
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