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1 sie 2019 · The basking shark, often mistaken for a white shark in New England waters, is one of the largest species and is a filter feeder. The smooth dogfish, a summer visitor to New England waters, is a small coastal shark that specializes in crustaceans.
Great white sharks are known to inhabit the waters off Cape Cod, and while shark attacks on humans are rare, they can still occur. The increase in great white shark population in recent years has led to a higher number of human-shark interactions around Cape Cod.
5 lip 2023 · Knowing the risk. White sharks are rebounding in Cape Cod for one simple reason: Their favorite prey, the gray seal, is back on the menu. Hunted nearly to extinction, the seal population...
Researcher Megan Winton led a groundbreaking study, establishing a population estimate for the white shark community frequenting Cape Cod waters. The findings revealed approximately 800 individual white sharks between 2015 and 2018, marking the first population estimate of its kind for the North Atlantic.
16 mar 2024 · Environmental efforts to protect sharks in recent years have resulted in a huge increase in the great white shark population off the New England coast.
11 lip 2024 · Skomal: One thing that our research has shown us using a variety of tagging technologies is that great white sharks we see off Cape Cod may be just seasonal visitors that go as far north as Newfoundland, Canada. Then when the water temperatures begin to cool in November and December, all these sharks — whether they’re in Canada, the Gulf of ...
28 lip 2023 · Scientists estimate that 800 great white sharks could be swimming in the waters off the Cape Cod, Mass., coastline, according to a study published Thursday. From 2015 to 2018, researchers...
