It's not just us humans who are leaving New Zealand in their hundreds each week .... even the local sharks are Aussie bound these days .... A female great white has set a new distance record for a New Zealand shark. (Yahoo Xtra Headline 'Record Swim For Great White' Monday 24th December 2007)
A four-point-four metre great white, nicknamed Kerri, has swum more than three thousand kilometres to the tropical waters of the southern Great Barrier Reef.
NIWA fisheries scientist Doctor Malcolm Francis says she was tagged back in March and just last Tuesday the tag began calling home. He says it will be months before it is known what route she took, or how quickly she travelled. He says the tag needs to be sent to the States for decoding.
Doctor Francis says the results suggest sharks in the south-west Pacific may make up a single population.
