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Mass Waters Home To One Of Largest Shark Hotspots Worldwide, New Study Says Mass Waters Home To One Of Largest Shark Hotspots Worldwide, New Study Says
Mass Waters Home To One Of Largest Shark Hotspots Worldwide, New Study Says The waters of Cape Cod are confirmed to be chock-full of toothy grey predators, according to a new study.  Approximately 800 sharks visited the waters of Cape Cod between 2015 to 2018, making the area one of the world's largest hotspots for white sharks, according to a new study published in the Marine Ecology Progress Series journal. Lead researcher Megan Winton and her co-researchers Gavin Fay and Greg Skomal conducted an intensive mark-recapture survey of the sharks in the Cape Cod area, creating the first-ever estimate of white shark abundance ever produced in the North Atlantic Ocean,…

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