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May 19, 2021 NEWPORT, Ore. – The population of white sharks that call the Central California coast their primary home is holding steady at about 300 animals and shows some signs of growth, a new long-term study of the species has shown. Between 2011 and 2018, researchers were able to identify hundreds of individual adult and subadult white sharks, which are not fully mature but are old enough to prey on marine mammals. They used that information to develop estimates of the sharks’ abundance. “The finding, a result of eight years of photographing and identifying individual sharks in the group, is an important indicator of the overall health of the marine environment in which the sharks live,” said Taylor Chapple of the Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center and a co-author of the study.
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NEWPORT, Ore. - The population of white sharks that call the Central California coast their primary home is holding steady at about 300 animals and shows some signs of growth, a new long-term study of the species has shown.
Between 2011 and 2018, researchers were able to identify hundreds of individual adult and subadult white sharks, which are not fully mature but are old enough to prey on marine mammals. They used that information to develop estimates of the sharks abundance.
Marineland sending 5 beluga whales to U.S. after aquarium overcomes legal challenges
Marineland is sending five beluga whales to the U.S. after an aquarium there navigated approval processes on both sides of the border and overcame legal challenges from environmental groups.
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Posted: May 13, 2021 2:58 PM ET | Last Updated: May 13
A beluga whale at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Conn. pictured in 2004. Mystic Aquarium has plans to import five captive-born beluga whales from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont. (The Associated Press)