NORTH CHATHAM, Mass — The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy spotted 55 new sharks in the waters off Cape Cod last year.
The AWSC Shark Catalog now has more than 600 white sharks on record- all with unique colorations, markings, and nicknames.
“It’s important because we can observe all the sharks through the course of many years,” AWSC Research Technician Victoria Migneco told Cape Media News. We can see how they’ve grown, we can see any seal interactions they’ve had from seal scratches and we can see their movement and observe their population.
63 familiar faces also returned, among them, an 11-foot-male White Shark named Danny first identified in 2014. Since Danny was tagged in 2019, researchers have tracked his movements as far south as Georgia and as far north as Nova Scotia.
The AWSC asks anyone living on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean to report any sightings of white sharks and submit pictures or videos.
“We just get all the footage we can compile it in our catalog. And use all the footage we can to identify sharks,” said Migneco. “Cape Cod sometimes has really bad water quality so seeing specific features of white sharks underwater could be hard.”
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