NEWPORT, Ore. â The population of white sharks that call the Central California coast their primary home is holding steady at about 300 animals and shows some signs of growth, a new long-term study of the species has shown.
Between 2011 and 2018, researchers were able to identify hundreds of individual adult and subadult white sharks, which are not fully mature but are old enough to prey on marine mammals. They used that information to develop estimates of the sharksâ abundance.
âThe finding, a result of eight years of photographing and identifying individual sharks in the group, is an important indicator of the overall health of the marine environment in which the sharks live,â said Taylor Chapple of the Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station at Oregon State Universityâs Hatfield Marine Science Center and a co-author of the study.
× By Nicole Blanchard, The Idaho Statesman
Published: May 31, 2021, 6:02am
Share: Lewis Pass Tarn at the northern end of the St. James Walkway, part of the Te Araroa Trail, in New Zealand. (Dreamstime/TNS)
BOISE, Idaho Spending time outdoors has always been healing for Claire Lewinski. And over the last year, she really needed to heal.
After a series of unrelated incidents left her with three concussions in just a few months, the 24-year-old had trouble speaking, balancing and remembering information. She struggled to focus in conversations and on her school work.
As a teenager, Lewinski found refuge in the outdoors around her family’s home in McCall. She grew up hiking, camping, canoeing, fishing and hunting with her family and learned early on that was like a salve for her mental health. She quickly noticed being outside also eased the symptoms from her concussions.