Sharks expert Richard Peirce will travel to North Uist in the Hebrides with his wife and 12 volunteers for two weeks.
“We’ve rented a shore base, chartered vessels, organised bait and, weather permitting, will cover a lot of water,” Peirce says.
“As far as I am aware, an intensive ‘chumming’ exercise for sharks has never been carried out in these waters before, so it will be interesting to see what turns up.”
Species recorded in the area include blue sharks, makos, porbeagles, threshers, basking sharks and tope.
Peirce takes seriously previous reports from “reliable witnesses” of sharks which could have been great whites.
However, referring to the fact that the porbeagle, common to the area, is a cousin of the great white and resembles it closely, he added:
“This is a general shark search; it is not, repeat not, a great white hunt, but wouldn’t it be great if one turned up!”
Peirce is carrying out the work as Chairman of the Cornwall-based Shark Conservation Society.
Over the past eight years the group has conducted sharks research off Cornwall, in the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, the Arabian Sea and in Kuwaiti and Qatari waters.
Peirce is also Chairman of the Devon-based Shark Trust.
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