It looks as if a foul time to be a seal within the Bay State.
While many of the focus is on nice white sharks trying to find seals alongside Cape Cod, one other useless seal with shark bites was just lately noticed on a South Shore seashore.
“Dead seal found on Humarock Beach (Scituate) with visible shark bites,” the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app posted with a photograph of the seal on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a shark was noticed thrashing within the water off of Great Point Nantucket Island on the Fourth of July, because the apex predator devoured prey. Blood could possibly be seen within the water.
“Sharks having a feast,” a viewer from Nantucket posted on Facebook.
Other nice white sharks have been noticed in Cape Cod Bay this week, in addition to alongside Chatham, a hotbed of shark exercise in the course of the summer time and fall.
This is the time of yr when nice white sharks migrate north to the Cape and Islands, together with different components of the Massachusetts coast.
One of OCEARCH’s tagged sharks, Anne Bonny, is visiting Cape Cod Bay, in line with its tracker.
“After touching Canadian waters in mid June she’s made her way back south to Massachusetts,” OCEARCH tweeted. “Her lasting ping was approx 4.2 nautical miles from shore.”
“We met this 9ft 3in & 425lb juvenile #WhiteShark off Ocracoke, NC in April & named her after the infamous female pirate Anne Bonny,” OCEARCH added. “This is our 1st time following her movements N and it will be exciting to see where she spends the rest of her Summer and Fall.”
Meanwhile, Shark Week (July 23 to 30) and Shark Awareness Day (July 14) are approaching, the New England Aquarium posted on Thursday.
The New England Aquarium’s shark analysis group does work on analysis vessels in Boston Harbor, Nantucket Sound, the Dry Tortugas off Florida, Georgia, and websites world wide as they tag and monitor varied species — starting from nurse sharks and oceanic white tip sharks to bull sharks, sand tigers, sandbar, and white sharks.
There are greater than 500 species of sharks on the earth, and scientists within the Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life have tagged greater than 40 totally different species and associated animals within the wild, lots of them in New England waters.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”