Current and future considerations for shark conservation in the Northeast and Eastern Central Pacific Ocean

Evidence of increasing juvenile white sharks' (Carcharodon carcharias) habitat use at the Northern Channel Islands

“…animal behavior, habitat expansion, telemetry, white shark White sharks are a circumglobal apex predator that likely suffered historic population declines in the United States from the late 1800s through 1990s due to fishing and loss of adult prey (i.e., marine mammals) (Curtis et al, 2014;Larson et al, 2021;Lowe et al, 2012). Since the implementation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972 and California's prohibition of white shark take in State waters in 1994, research and monitoring has documented signs of white shark population growth (e.g., Kanive et al, 2021;Tinker et al, 2016).…”