Shark advocate Wendy Benchley (right), whose late husband Peter Benchley wrote “Jaws,” spoke at the New England Aquarium recently as part of an event sponsored by Women Working for Oceans. She was joined by Nigella Hillgarth (left), the aquarium’s president and CEO, and John Mandelman, the aquarium’s director of research, who studies sharks.


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