Great White Shark Population Growth Off California Coast Points to Progress
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Great white shark population along California coast booming
By Julia Musto
Stanford University, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Oregon State University s Hatfield Marine Science Center found that between 2011 and 2018 great white shark numbers in the area had notably risen.
Over a period of more than 2,500 hours of observation at three sites – Southeast Farallon Island, Año Nuevo Island and Tomales Point –
Comparatively, a 2011 three-year study found just 219 sharks, suggesting the shift.
Although the group found both male and female sharks, the estimate of the adult female population showed just around 60 in the region.
Underwater
video recordings and photographs helped to collect the data and a seal decoy was used to lure the apex predators.
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9 dead in shooting rampage at San Jose rail yard
Police spokesman Russell Davis said the gunman was an employee at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail hub, and other employees were among the victims. Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said the gunman took his own life.
A great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).
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The great white shark population off Northern California s coast is healthy and growing, a new study finds.
A survey of the great whites (
Carcharodon carcharias) off the northern coast finds a stable adult population and a slight uptick in the number of subadult sharks, totaling 300 individuals. Researchers used a seal decoy to lure the apex predators to their boats so they could photograph and count the sharks.
The findings are great for the region.
Related: Robust populations of large predators are critical to the health of our coastal marine ecosystem, study co-author Taylor Chapple, a marine ecologist at Oregon State University,