Equipped with a camera, turbines and a painted anxious stare, Kenny – a decoy seal made from cork and aluminium — was created to attract sharks so researchers can monitor the species’ behaviour and population in Quebec waters.
The team also wants to move away from baiting sharks, said Jeffrey Gallant, the scientific director of the St. Lawrence Shark Observatory, because the scientists don't want sharks thinking humans, or boats, are a possible food source.
"We have high hopes for Kenny helping us out … As far as we know nobody's used one in Quebec yet and maybe not even in Canada," said Gallant, who helped design it. William Messier, Marc-André Gaudreau, Jeffrey Gallant, Marc-André Baril pose with Kenny B outside the Université du Québec in Trois-Rivières campus in Drummondville, Que.Gallant says during last year's expedition — which was cut short due to the weather and hurricane Fiona — the team detected four sharks in just half a day.
The team got a permit to have shore excusrions on Brion Island in 2022 to document seals killed or injured by great white sharks.
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