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The great white shark is arguably the world's largest-known extant macropredatory fish, and is one of the primary predators of marine mammals, such as pinnipeds and dolphins. The great white shark is also known to prey upon a variety of other animals, including fish, other sharks, and seabirds. It has only one recorded natural predator, the orca.
There have been more than 1,200 shark incidents in Australia since 1791, of which 255 resulted in death, official data shows. Great white sharks were responsible for 94 of those deaths.
The 2007 film Sharkwater documents ways in which sharks are being hunted to extinction. [15] In 2009, the IUCN Shark Specialist Group reported on the conservation status of pelagic (open water) sharks and rays. They found that over half the pelagic sharks targeted by high-seas fisheries were threatened with extinction. [16] [17] [18]
The first great white shark, a 10-foot female named Celia, was detected off Cable Beach the afternoon of July 28, 2023. On Sept. 23, 9.5-foot female Peg was detected off Cable Beach and Sawyers ...
The IUCN lists global threats to great white sharks to include targeted commercial and sports fisheries, protective beach meshing, and "media-fanned campaigns to kill Great White Sharks after a biting incident occurs". [43] Some people against the policy also believe drum lines have the potential to attract sharks to popular beaches.
Swimming has been banned in parts of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, after great white sharks were seen attacking and killing seals "very close to the shore," officials said.
These threatened species occur in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area [1] and are listed as threatened under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (Bonn Convention), CITES (CITES) Agreement, China–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA), Japan–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement or the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List ...
In 2013, WHOI engineers took a specially equipped REMUS SharkCam underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island off the West Coast of Mexico. Their goal was to track and film great white sharks in the ...