Increased great white shark research is being done ahead of a busy tourist season along the East Coast.
The middle of August marks the beginning of the end of summer for most Americans. But the tranquility lapping the shores of Cape Cod this time of year marks the start of shark season, in an area currently seeing more great white sharks than any other place in the world.
"It's incredible to be where this intense predator-prey interaction is happening," Nelson said as he looked out over the waters of Cape Cod. "We need to understand how we can coexist with wildlife. That comes with any wildlife, no matter where you are," said Maddie Poirier, a community educator at the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
In 1972, Congress signed the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which made it illegal to hunt seals. Then, in 1997, it became illegal to catch sharks within 200 nautical miles off the shore. In 2005, the state of Massachusetts made it illegal to capture white sharks."Data that once took us years to collect on sharks, we can now get that almost instantly," said John Chisholm, an adjunct scientist with the New England Aquarium.
"It's a data point. It's citizen science, as we like to call it," Chisholm said."We get so many of those we can see patterns of where and when they occur, and then we have a better idea of where these sharks are spending their time."
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