Endangered baby smalltooth sawfish cruises the shoreline of Fort Myers Beach Florida
Rare sighting of an edangered baby smalltooth sawfish as it cruises the shoreline of Fort Myers Beach Florida on Saturday
For 16 years, Jim Gelsleichter and his students surveyed the waters in southeastern Georgia and northeastern Florida to learn more about the sharks, rays and other related species in the region.
In all those years, one fish remained elusive, the endangered smalltooth sawfish. But this summer, as a storm approached their boat in the St. Marys River at the end of the day, a student felt a tug on a line and quickly realized something big was on the other end.
Gelsleichter, a professor and coastal and marine biology flagship program director…
