MSU shark researchers party at DISL

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. – The Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) welcomed two new additions for Alabama's Coastal Aquarium, the Estuarium, on March 16. The pair of nurse sharks joined the aquarium’s residents to give visitors an up-close look at the life found throughout the northern Gulf of Mexico. Nurse sharks are sometimes called the “couch potatoes of the sea” and can be found around the world, according to a DISL media notice. The name comes from the “unusual sucking sound” it makes while hunting that “resembles the suckling of a nursing baby." The welcome to the Estuarium party included a shark research team from Mississippi State University and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. (Source: WPMI 03/16/19) MASGC provides integrated university- and college-based research, communications, education, extension and legal programs to coastal communities that lead to the responsible use of ocean and coastal resources in Alabama and Mississippi, and the Gulf of Mexico, through informed personal, policy and management decisions.