QUODDY TIDES • August 31, 2024
Steve Crawford, a fish ecologist at the University of Guelph in Ontario, a scientist who has been gaining local knowledge about great white sharks along the East Coast of the U.S. and Canada believes there could be up to nearly 1,000 of them in the Passamaquoddy Bay region during a season and that they may be courting and mating in the bay. While other scientists say that the number of great white sharks in the region cannot yet be estimated, nor can it be determined if their numbers are increasing or if they are mating, they agree that the number of sharks being detected in the bay is growing.