[SEMCO] Marion Natural History Museum presents - White Sharks in the North Atlantic

[ELIZABETH LEIDHOLD]

White Sharks in the North Atlantic

With  Dr. Greg Skomal,
Senior Marine Fisheries Scientist, MA Marine Fisheries

Date:  Friday, June 10

Time: 7 – 8 pm

Where: Marion Music Hall, 164 Front Street, Marion, MA

Cost: $8.00 members, $10.00 nonmembers

Children and full time students $8.00 with school id


Despite
its well-established presence in the North Atlantic, the white shark is not
considered an abundant species and efforts to study its life history and
ecology have been hampered by the inability of researchers to predictably
encounter these sharks. However, with the protection of marine mammals over the
last 40 years, the western North Atlantic gray seal population has rebounded
and there is strong evidence that white sharks have expanded their foraging
strategies to include active predation on these animals off Cape Cod, MA. For
the first time, researchers have predictable access to white sharks in the
North Atlantic.  This presentation will
highlight the results of this research. 		 	   		  

 		 	   		  
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