Sharklab Monthly Highlights Video
Check out our monthly video......put together by current intern Jack Massuger. In it he brilliantly gives an insight into volunteer life at the station including: longlining for tiger sharks, our hammerhead tagging research and a profile on the Caribbean reef shark....
Great Hammerhead Naturalist Course
From time to time the Bimini Biological Field Station (BBFS) offers a non-technical course in the general conservation and biology of sharks. This features illustrated lectures, daily field trips, presentations and personal encounters with several species of actively feeding, free-swimming sharks. The entire 6-day course is...
Petition to Protect the Adult Lemon Shark Aggregation in Florida
The well-documented lemon shark aggregation that occurs during the months of January to April/May off the coast of Jupiter, Florida, is in trouble. NOAA implemented a rule changing the opening date of the 2013 Atlantic Shark Commercial Fishing Season from July 1st to January 1st, putting the lemon...
The Sharklab shows support for the North Bimini Marine Reserve
As the 2013 Cacique Award winner for Sustainable Tourism, the BBFSF would like to strongly urge that finalizing the full protection for the North Bimini Marine Reserve (NBMR) be made an immediate priority. The NBMR encompasses an area of unequaled ecological importance, and also provides the foundation for...
The PIT Project 2013
From South Africa to Brazil, from the US to the UK over to Belgium and finally France, 29 people from all over the world came together for the 19th BBFSF annual juvenile lemon shark population census in Bimini, Bahamas. Despite the blood sucking mosquitos and lightening illuminating...
