Story by Murray Carpenter, Maine Public
Individuals who monitor shark monitoring apps have observed a white shark hanging round Casco Bay over the previous week.
It’s a shark that’s acquainted to James Sulikowski of Arizona State College, who has been finding out sharks in Maine for years.
Sulikowski tagged this shark in April off of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Then he used the tags to trace the shark, a 12-foot male he named Bobby E, because it made its means north. First it went to Brooklyn, New York, in June, then to Cape Cod.
“However then, what was much more superb, was that Bobby ended up in Maine,” he stated.
White sharks are frequent guests to Maine, and Sulikowski and others are studying extra about their habits yearly, via collaborative analysis tasks. Sulikowski stated they’re attempting to reply many questions, together with if white shark numbers are rising within the space.
This text seems via a media partnership with Maine Public.
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