Cape Cod in Massachusetts is home to one of the world's biggest hotspots of great white sharks, new research finds. Between 2015 to 2018, an estimated 800 great white sharks visited the area, according to a study published July 27 in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series.
This is the first estimate of abundance for great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the western North Atlantic Ocean, the researchers said. The finding "suggests that Cape Cod is among the larger aggregation sites worldwide," the authors wrote.
