Cape Town Great White Sharks Disappear

Great white sharks which support south africa s shark diving industry and have been responsible for a number of fatal attacks off cape town haven t been seen in the region for 18 months.

Cape town great white sharks disappear.

The city of cape town along with its shark spotter program has noted that there is an absence of great white sharks in the false bay area. Experts are baffled by the development. In 2018 this figure dropped further to just 50. Great whites vanish from cape town s waters 06 13.

September 30 2019 12 00 am edt updated on september 30 2019 10 37 am edt 5 03. Great white sharks have suddenly disappeared from one of their favorite hangouts. Working in tandem with a conservation group called shark. Sightings of white sharks carcharodon carcharias have crashed this.

In the space of three years cape town s apex predators had literally disappeared. 30 2019 12 00 pm. The shark spotters applied research programme has been monitoring great white activity and behavioural ecology in false bay since 2004. So where have they gone and why.

Great white sharks have disappeared from cape town south africa with nary a single shark having been spotted over the past 18 months. By linda nordling aug. Cape town residents don t know who to blame for the disappearance of their great white sharks. Johannesburg south africa not a single great white shark has been spotted this year in a bay on south africa s coast which until recently.

By 2019 there were zero recorded sightings mirrored by a complete absence of white sharks in cage diving encounters. As great white sharks disappear cape town searches for reasons by. The orcas that eat them the fishermen who sell their prey to australia for use in fish and chips. Then in 2017 the number of great white sightings recorded by the shark spotters plummeted to 57.