Even though more and more sharks are getting tagged every year, the proportion of them making their way here has remained consistent, and low. Her team analyzed 10 years of data from tagged sharks to find out what proportion of them were swimming up to Canada. “I find there's no real evidence of large scale abundance increase, or even large changes in presence in Canadian waters,” Bowlby says. But a more recent study, published last month by Bowlby and a group of top shark experts in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, might dispel the myth that our province is becoming a white shark hotspot. Sure, shark attacks are rare, but are there more white sharks coming here? Nova Scotia has rising water temperatures and a growing grey seal population, which is why, as this 2020 study hypothesizes, the province is becoming increasingly appealing for these sharp-toothed predators. Heather Bowlby, lead researcher of the Canadian Atlantic Shark Research Laboratory at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, says in an interview with The Coast: “If you were a child in Nova Scotia 50 years ago, the risk is probably similar now.” This week, Discovery Channel has dedicated seven straight days of content about Carcharodon carcharias, the annual tradition known as Shark Week.īut increasing presence in the media doesn’t translate to an increased presence of sharks in the water-at least not in Canada. The white shark’s reputation has gotten a makeover in recent decades, from the monster of our horror movies to the misunderstood animal of our nature documentaries. It’s a powerful, majestic and giant ocean predator that inspires both fear and fascination. It’s obvious why the great white shark has captured our imagination. A triangular fin looming amongst the waves. The white shark dubbed Unama’ki, caught for tagging off Nova Scotia by an OCEARCH boat in 2019. So how many shark attacks happened in Nova Scotia in the 130 years between John Roult’s death and the bite Taylor Boudreau-Deveaux received? Zero. Just this month, a white shark named Tancook has been hanging out in Mahone Bay, and another named Keji is swimming in Musquodoboit Harbour. Thanks to OCEARCH’s shark tracking app, anyone can check up on our local sharks in real time. If you’ve seen the headlines, it would be easy to believe the number of white sharks around Nova Scotia has exploded in recent years. This is the most recent apparent shark attack in our province. She was airlifted to the hospital, underwent surgery and received a lot of stitches, but she’s doing fine now. The evening of August 13, 2021, 21-year-old Taylor Boudreau-Deveaux was swimming off a boat near Margaree Island in western Cape Breton when she was bitten by what is believed to be a great white shark. Roult’s death is the earliest confirmed shark attack in Nova Scotia. At least that’s the story that appeared in the Augedition of the Washington Post. Both Roult and the shark were never seen again. The predator had been following the French fishing schooner Societe off the coast of Halifax. East Coast.On August 30, 1891, a 21-year-old sailor named John Roult was knocked overboard and “immediately seized” by a shark. Breton is known for his long sojourns: in October 2021, the shark traversed a distance of roughly 1,500 miles.īreton is named after Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where he was first tagged, reported The Inertia. In 2020, ocean research group OCEARCH fitted him with a satellite tagger so as to protect the endangered species. It’s a male great white shark weighing 1,500lbs and measuring over 13 feet in length, as per a Newsweek report. The shark in question is Breton the Great White, said Barnaby in a tweet. Tracking sharks is an important component of how marine biologists study the movements and behaviour patterns of sharks, including reasons for their migration.
Shared by Twitter user Jeff Barnaby, the graphic traces the path taken by the shark and if you join the dots together, you’ve got yourself what comes pretty close to looking like a shark outline. A shark fitted with a GPS tracker drew a shark in the waters of the Atlantic in a pretty meta development recently.
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