{"id":819559,"date":"2026-08-20T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819559\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T05:30:13","slug":"researcher-discusses-significance-of-nh-shark-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819559\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher discusses significance of NH shark sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘National Geographic moment’: Researcher discusses significance of Portsmouth shark sighting<\/p>\n

\"DefaultMANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014<\/p>\n

The New England Aquarium in Boston says the Northeast is in peak shark season.<\/p>\n

A great white shark was seen off the coast of Portsmouth<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

John Chisholm with the aquarium has been tracking great white sharks in the Atlantic since the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Despite New Hampshire’s short coastline, Chisholm says there is historic evidence that sharks are swimming in Granite State waters, such as seals on the Isle of Shoals with bite injuries.<\/p>\n

Chisholm said it is considered extremely rare to see a shark as up close as two fishermen recently did in Portsmouth.<\/p>\n

“The average person isn’t going to go out and say, ‘I want to see a white shark today and actually find one.’ You know it’s pretty rare to actually find one,” Chisholm said. “Never mind having an experience like that. So you know it’s a National Geographic moment when you see a shark feeding on a whale.”<\/p>\n

Chisholm said to report shark sightings because it helps researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘National Geographic moment’: Researcher discusses significance of Portsmouth shark sighting MANCHESTER, N.H. \u2014 The New England Aquarium in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[9170,347558,11342,347560,59202,11343,347555,47406,2804,347554,15625,347559,5496,79,8207,347557,347556,22645,340504,201],"class_list":["post-819559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-atlantic","tag-bite-injury","tag-great-white-shark","tag-historic-evidence","tag-isle","tag-john-chisholm","tag-national-geographic-moment","tag-new-england-aquarium","tag-new-hampshire","tag-nh-shark-sighting","tag-portsmouth","tag-portsmouth-last-weekend","tag-researcher","tag-science","tag-shark","tag-shoals","tag-short-coastline","tag-sighting","tag-significance","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819559","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=819559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}