Great White Shark lecture

Lecture: The Comeback of the Great White Shark in Our Backyard

From 6:30 to 8 p.m., Dr. Tobey Curtis of the National Marine Fisheries Service will speak about “The Comeback of the Great White Shark in Our Backyard” at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich. Historically, great white sharks were rare off the coasts of New England and seldom encountered. However, the recovery of seal populations and changes in fishery management has allowed sharks to rebound. In this lecture, Curtis discusses the history of great white sharks in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, and the discovery of a great white nursery off the southern coast of Long Island. Members and certain students with ID, free (follow the reservations link for details); non-members $15.

Great White Shark Turns Up in Greenwich — First Known Siting There, Ever

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It sounded like another sequel to Jaws, yet this time it is fact, not fiction. Ocearch.org, a marine life organization that has tagged and tracked a great white shark named after the explorer John Cabot, issued an advisory on Monday that the 9-foot-8-inch, 533-pound shark was spotted in the waters off the Greenwich coast. — This article originally was published by GreenwichFreePress.com. OCearch studies marine life in the U.S. and worldwide. At approximately 10:50 am Monday, OCearch tweeted that Cabot had triggered their tracking system in Long Island Sound, in the water between Tod’s Point and Great Captains Island.