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“We have an unsolvable problem here, and we’re just going to have to mitigate it,” Capt. Tom King, a Scituate fisherman, said. King has been studying shark behavior on the South Shore for decades, and he and other experts trace the increase in shark sightings and incidents off the Massachusetts coast to federal regulations implemented in the 1970s and 1990s that protected the populations of both gray seals and their primary predator - white sharks

It was another busy weekend for shark sightings, with 15 great whites spotted off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday and Sunday combined. That's the same number of sharks that were spotted the weekend before. According to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy's Sharktivity app, seven great white sharks were spotted off Provincetown, one off Truro, two of Wellfleet, one off Orleans and one off Chatham's Monomoy Island. Great whites were also spotted in Cape Cod Bay, off Plymouth and off Cohasset. In the last week alone, there have now been more than 50 great white shark sightings.

ORLEANS, Mass. — Dozens of sharks have been spotted lurking in the shallow waters off of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Over 30 sightings were reported along the Cape in the past week alone, according to data from the Atlantic Great White Conservancy's app Sharktivity.

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy has tagged its first two great white sharks of the season in Cape Cod Bay, according to a tweet the organization posted Monday afternoon. At least 11 white sharks were spotted and two were tagged by Greg Skomal, senior fisheries scientist with the state Division of Marine fisheries. All of the sharks were on Billingsgate Shoal. The two sharks that were tagged were 9 feet and 10 feet long. Skomal’s work with the conservancy is expanding into Cape Cod Bay this year, following frequent reports last year of sharks snagging fish caught by passengers on...

There has been a lot of effort in the last few years put into tagging and identifying individual white sharks on the east side of Cape Cod, especially in the Chatham area. Even though I have always had good info on what is happening with these white sharks, I was surprised by the number of whites that hang around that area. They are tagged, filmed by researchers and pleasure boaters, individually identified, and documented, in such a small area. On the east side of Cape Cod we are talking about an area 20 miles long and not very wide since...

A 7-foot-long shark attacked a swimmer Saturday at Manhattan Beach, causing serious injury and prompting authorities to use helicopters and boats to evacuate throngs of people taking to the water on a busy 4th of July holiday weekend. The incident happened about 9:30 Saturday morning, said photographer Eric Hartman, who saw the victim carried from a lifeguard vehicle on a backboard into an ambulance near the first lifeguard station south of the Manhattan Pier.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California – A shark that bit and killed a surfer off of California's central coast probably was a great white and may have mistaken the boarder for prey, experts said Wednesday. "Most shark attacks in California are caused by great whites. There's no other species that regularly occurs off of California that could inflict that kind of injury," said Andrew Nosal, a marine biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.

January 20, 2010 - For immediate release: White Shark Tag Attached in Massachusetts Surfaces off Florida Coast Officials await data detailing shark's migratory path BOSTON - State marine biologists have tracked an electronic tag placed on a white shark in waters off Cape Cod last September to the coast of North Florida, providing clues to the wintering grounds and other habits of these top marine predators, Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles said today. Under a project led by Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) Senior Biologist Greg Skomal, DMF biologists placed electronic tags on five great white sharks...

BOSTON -- A state biologist and a team of Cape Cod fishermen became the first group to successfully tag a great white shark in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, placing tracking devices on two sharks off the coast of Chatham, according to the Department of Marine Fisheries. Biologists from the Massachusetts Shark Research Program have been closely monitoring the waters near Monomy Island to locate and identify sharks after five were spotted in the waters off Cape Cod on Thursday. At about 10 a.m. Saturday, Skomal and the crew of the fishing vessel Ezduzit identified a great white off the...

By K.C. MYERS kcmyers@capecodonline.com September 03, 2009 CHATHAM – The town is on high alert after five large sharks, possibly great whites, were spotted trolling the waters close to Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge Thursday afternoon. Town and state officials have issued warnings to the public urging people to avoid swimming where seals congregate. Town officials are expected to decide Friday whether further measures, such as beach closures, are necessary, said Lisa Capone, press secretary for the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. More Times Breaking News Despite controversy, Nantucket sheriff to run again - 8:19 am Nantucket schools...