The preferred prey of the white shark, coastal seals and sea lions, have rebounded to very high numbers, thereby providing sustainable and plentiful food sources for the sharks.” As an apex predator, white sharks need a healthy structure of other animals in the lower levels in the food chain. “The findings are a good indicator of the overall health. “We are cautiously optimistic that this is a good news story for the ocean ecosystem off California,” Paul Kanive, lead author and a veteran member of the California white shark tagging team, told Newsweek. The seven-year study, funded by Stanford and the Monterey Bay Aquarium and supported by Oregon State University, concluded there were 266 adult and sub-adult great whites in the triangle, a “modest” increase on a decade earlier.īut the researchers said it was a “clear indication” that ocean conditions were improving, with associated benefits to marine life. Gray Whale Cove is at the center of the coastal stretch. Last month, marine ecologists at Montana State University found that great white numbers were up in northern California’s so-called “red triangle”, which runs north from Monterey Bay to Bodega Bay and about 20 miles offshore to the Farallon Islands. It’s shallow but a shark can attack very close to the beach.” “Usually within the surf zone, so they’re within 100ft to 200ft of the actual beach. “It was only one bite and there were about 10 lacerations to the back of the right thigh,” Brian Ham, battalion chief of the San Mateo fire department told Bay Area’s CBS5. The shark that attacked him was estimated at between 6ft and 8ft, the San Mateo county sheriff’s office said, indicating it was probably a juvenile. The 35-year-old man was able to swim to shore at Gray Whale Cove beach close to San Francisco, where rescuers applied a tourniquet to his right leg.įirst responders applied “advanced life support measures”, Cal Fire’s San Mateo-Santa Cruz unit said, then transported the man to the trauma unit at Zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital.
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