For the first time, scientists have estimated the abundance of great white sharks off the coast of Cape Cod.
Cape Cod in Massachusetts is home to one of the world's biggest hotspots of great white sharks, new research finds. Between 2015 to 2018, an estimated 800 great white sharks visited the area, according to a study published July 27 in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series.
"Over the course of the past 10 years, white sharks have come back to Cape Cod to feed on the recovering seal population," Winton, a marine researcher and member of the nonprofit organization Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, told The Inertia. Humans hunted gray and harbor seals to the brink of extinction in the 1960s, but their populations have dramatically increased since 1972 when the U.S.
In the 1980s, great white shark populations in the Atlantic Ocean were just 27% of what they were in 1961. But they have made a widespread comeback along the western North Atlantic coast in recent years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This study confirms that trend in Cape Cod.
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