Reported Shark Sighting at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester, Massachusetts Turns Out to be Dogfish
An employee with the harbormaster's office pulled the small shark from the water
By Marc Fortier ••
A shark sighting off Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Tuesday afternoon turned out to be a dogfish.
The sighting was first reported around 11 a.m. An employee with the harbormaster's office walked into the water, grabbed the dogfish, and pulled it out of the water.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
The 20th shark was tagged in Chatham.
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Wayne Davis worked to grab this shot of two sharks being tagged.
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And here's Robert.
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This is Ashley Grace.
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And here's Brady.
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MA Sharks named one of their sharks Big Papi.
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The 19th shark was tagged off Nauset Inlet.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
The 18th shark of the season was captured off Nauset Inlet.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
And Dr. Greg Skomal captured the 17th shark of the season off Nauset Public.
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The 16th shark of the season was captured off Nauset North.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Another shark was tagged in Truro, Mass.
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More white sharks were spotted off Nauset Beach this past weekend.
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And Cool Beans
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And Scratchy.
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And Ben.
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Here's James the shark.
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The first white shark was tagged on June 24th off of Nauset Beach.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Mass Marine Fisheries Dr. Greg Skomal worked with the conservancy to tag the shark.
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Dr. Skomal and the conservancy tagged the second white shark off of Cape Cod on June 27th.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Dr. Skomal and the conservancy tagged the third shark of the season on July 6th off of Coastguard Beach in Cape Cod.
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Capeshores Charters
An Orca, or killer whale, was spotted by Captain Bruce Peters of Capeshores Charters off the coast of Chatham, Mass., on July 4th.
Capeshores Charters
Capeshores Charters
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A fourth shark was tagged on July 7th.
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Spotter pilot Wayne Davis captured photos of a white shark chasing a seal.
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Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark's spotter pilot Wayne Davis snapped this photo of a white shark near two seals off Monomoy.
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Cameras captured a shark eating a seal.
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This is the 8th shark of the season Dr. Skomal tagged.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy/Wayne Davis
This great white shark was spotted off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy/Wayne Davis
Boaters were alerted to this great white by the Sharktivity app.
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Spotter pilot Wayne Davis spotted three great white sharks at once off Monomoy Island on Monday.
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Dr. Greg Skomal tagged the ninth great white shark of the season - an 11-footer - off Monomy Island on Thursday.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Dr. Greg Skomal tagged the ninth great white shark of the season - an 11-footer - off Monomy Island on Thursday.
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The 10th shark of the season, an 11 foot one, was tagged off Monomoy.
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Scratchy was one of the sharks seen off the Cape on Aug. 3.
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This white shark tagged on Aug. 4 was identified as Keelie, a 10.5-foot female first identified last year.
Center for Coastal Studies photo taken under NOAA permit #18786.
Several great white sharks were spotted feeding on a whale carcass off North Truro, Massachusetts.
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A white shark was spotted near a dead Minke Whale in Truro, Mass.
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Atlantic White Shark Conservancy
Another great white shark was spotted off Monomoy on Monday morning.
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Another shot of the shark off Monomoy.
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A shark was spotted by Wayne Davis near a school of menhaden.
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These crabs were spotted near another shark
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This great white shark was spotted on Thursday, Aug. 18, off Cape Cod.
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Broken Tail the shark popped up again this summer.
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Three great white sharks were spotted in the area between Nauset Beach and Callanan's Pass on Friday.
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This manatee was spotted off Harwich, Massachusetts, on Thursday.
Harwich Harbormaster's Office
This manatee was spotted off Harwich, Massachusetts, on Thursday.
Harwich Harbormaster's Office
This manatee was spotted off Harwich, Massachusetts, on Thursday.
Dogfish are small sharks that are abundant in New England waters.
Swimmers were originally told to clear the water, but have since been allowed to return.
The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center is reportedly trying to revive the 3-foot animal.
Earlier this month, the Coast Guard had to rescue a fisherman after he was bitten on the arm by a dogfish off the Gloucester coast.
