1.   A senior biologist at the Midwestern school said FBI agents became visibly excited when they first learned of the Somali student.

2.   But adult parr marks alone do not a new subspecies make, according to Dwayne Maxwell, a senior biologist with the DFG in Long Beach.

3.   Chuck Armor, senior biologist at the state Department of Fish and Game, says the fish follow what scientists call salt cues to find comfortable saline levels.

4.   Ken Howell is a senior aquatic biologist at Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park.

5.   Not likely, said Paulette Nelson, a senior biologist with the state Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife.

6.   The reason is the surplus of boats, says Bob Trumble, senior biologist at the International Pacific Halibut Commission in Seattle.

7.   To that end they have chosen a carpet manufacturing official, a Republican legislator from Hawaii, and a senior biologist from Indiana University to speak for their cause.

8.   Senior biologist with the United States Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute, Dr Scott Eckert, said there was still very little information on whale sharks.