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Cape Cod shark researchers have reported the first confirmed great white shark sighting of the season, as more eyeballs were on the water for the unofficial start of summer. The white shark chomping on the seal on Sunday was the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s first confirmed sighting of the season, according to Massachusetts-based shark expert John Chisholm, who is with the New England Aquarium and who has been tracking shark sightings for many years. “We’ve had a couple of other unconfirmed sightings, but this is the first one where we actually got to see the shark,” said Chisholm, “We know...

New Englanders can expect to have a bigger than ever white shark news season ahead in 2021. Two of the reasons being the existing numbers of seal and white sharks will continue to grow and spread throughout New England, and that will remain unabated, because both species are federally protected, and both are still thriving. Another reason is at the end of 2020 a group of biologists formed a new white shark consortium. So, you can expect more information to be coming from this expanded group of shark biologists. The newly formed consortium consists of the original two groups, the...