It is not breeding quickly enough. It is being caught out in the wild and it is not recovering from the fishing pressures on the east coast.
We expect in two or three months to do an ultrasound to check the embryos and eggs development. After fertilization we are talking a year for pups to be born and with seven gills there could be 60 or more pups.
We are using our seven gill shark as a surrogate species because they are more common and easier to work with than risking the gray nurse shark.
You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.
The three of us, that's the last thing that was on our mind, to go out partying and drinking. Make sure you're safe, not for your sake, for someone else's, so no one has to go through this.
I miss them. I wish they were here, I wish I didn't have to do all of this.
You could call it a monster. It looks like it almost wants to come out of the ice.