Great white shark 'with distinctive wounds' moving north along US coast

An excellent white shark, measuring over three metres in size, is shifting north alongside the east coast of the US.

Knowledge shared by international shark tracker OCEARCH reveals "Maple" has swum greater than 7000 kilometres after she was tagged off Ironbound Island, Nova Scotia in September final yr.

She final pinged off New Jersey as she strikes to cooler waters.

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'Maple' was named after one in all Canada's nationwide emblems.(OCEARCH)

Maple is a sub-adult and sported substantial accidents when she was first caught.

"She had a particular wound on the left facet of her physique," OCEARCH says.

"After the preliminary evaluation, our science workforce believes it was possible resulting from a current interplay with one other bigger white shark. This interplay was probably an instance of dominance behaviour."

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Maple had substantial gashes on the left facet of her physique. One other shark is believed chargeable for the injuries.( OCEARCH)

Presently of the yr, a inhabitants of Western North Atlantic nice white sharks transfer north to the waters off New England and Nova Scotia for what OCEARCH calls the "summer season feeding aggregation".

When northern hemisphere winter hits they then journey again right down to the Southeast United States.

Picture of shark from under pushed free-diver 'to the boundaries'

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