great white sharks<\/a> near the waters of Nova Scotia, Canada, according to a Marine Ecology Progress Series paper published in Inter-Research in May.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Researchers attribute the increase to an overall growth in the population of great whites between the years 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n
They also say it could be due to \u201cchanges in habitat use that cause the population distribution to shift northward during warmer months.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
There have been 47 unprovoked\u00a0shark bites\u00a0globally in 2024, with 28 taking place in the U.S., according to the Florida Museum of Natural History\u2019s International Shark Attack File (ISAF).<\/p>\n
Researchers found the increase in the growth of the great white shark population to have occurred between the years 2019 and 2021. AP<\/p>\n
Activist Julie Andersen, founder of the New York-based Shark Angels, previously told Fox News Digital that several\u00a0beach communities\u00a0are seeing higher numbers of sharks this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the Florida Museum of Natural History\u2019s International Shark Attack File, there have been 47 unprovoked\u00a0shark bites\u00a0globally in 2024, with 28 taking place in the U.S. Carlos Gauna\/Malibu Artists \/ SWNS<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on trends over the past few years, shark behavior is clearly shifting,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the West Coast to the East Coast and even parts of Mexico, sightings are increasing in places like California, Cape Cod, the Carolinas, Florida, and Baja.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andersen said that in places like California or Cape Cod, Massachusetts, white shark populations are rebounding \u201cthanks to decades of protection.\u201d She said their return is a sign of\u00a0healthier oceans.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the summer days wind down,\u00a0travelers are still\u00a0hitting the beaches to take dips in the ocean. Those in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[17756,12604,6202,79,9460,194,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-117322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-beaches","9":"tag-great-white-sharks","10":"tag-ocean","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sharks","13":"tag-us-news","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}