Better Hurry, Another White Shark at the Aquarium - Central Coast News KION/KCBA

MONTEREY, Calif- For the fifth time, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has placed a young great white shark on exhibit, bringing her from Malibu to Monterey Wednesday.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is the only institution in the world to exhibit a white shark for more than 16 days, and has documented the successful return to the wild of each animal kept on exhibit.

As with the other white sharks brought to the aquarium, the aquarium hopes she'll remain on exhibit for several months, as a way to change public attitudes and promote stronger protection for this magnificent and much-maligned ocean predator.

The young shark, a five-foot, three-inch female weighing 79.8 pounds, was brought north on Wednesday in a 3,000-gallon mobile life support transport vehicle.

She was collected on August 12 by aquarium staff with the help of a spotter plane and a commercial fishing crew using a purse seine net. She was quickly transferred to a 4-million-gallon ocean holding pen off Malibu, where she remained for almost two weeks.

Aquarium staff observed her swimming comfortably and feeding in the pen nearly a dozen times before she was brought to Monterey and placed in the million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit.

This summer four young white sharks were tagged and released in the field  part of the aquarium's ongoing Juvenile White Shark Project.

Since 2002, the aquarium and its partners have collected DNA samples, tagged and tracked 26 young sharks in the wild, and - on five occasions - brought a white shark to Monterey for exhibit. All four sharks previously kept at the aquarium were tagged and tracked after their release.

The latest, released near Santa Barbara in September 2008 after 11 days at the aquarium, remained in waters near the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara. Data from her tag, and observations from a fisherman who later accidentally caught and released her, showed she was doing well.