Wetpixel member Matt Potenski (shark8matt) spent the summer tagging juvenile lemon sharks with the Bimini Biological Field Station as a part of the PIT 2006 project. The project, named after the type of passive integrated transponder used, is an effort to track the resident population of young sharks and to determine how many additional individuals have been born each year in Bimini Lagoon.

Wetpixel’s Eric Cheng was a participant in the program in 2003, and Matt took the time to write up a full report, with pictures and commentary, of this year’s efforts: PIT 2006.