Shark experts have launched a great white shark hunt in South West waters after saying the predators 'could' and 'should' live here. Researchers say the creatures have been migrating north from the Mediterranean in search of food.
The number of great whites have rocketed in recent decades, which some experts have put down to increasing seal numbers, one of the creature's food sources. Chris Fischer, founder of Ocearch, told The Times his organisation has tracked other groups of great whites northwards in search of seals and researchers are backing their bags for the UK in hopes of finding more.
“We believe they should be moving up past Brest [in Brittany] and Cornwall,” he told the publication. Ocearch researchers have planned their trip to Cornwall for next year.
