Juvenile great white sharks tagged near RI beaches

WESTERLY, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Islanders aren’t the only ones swimming in Narragansett Bay this summer.

Jon Dodd, the executive director of the Atlantic Shark Institute, said this season has been a “sharky one.”

In the past week, the institute has tagged two great white sharks in Rhode Island. While Dodd wouldn’t reveal the exact locations where the sharks were tagged, he noted that it was between Narragansett and Watch Hill in Westerly…

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