Presume, surmise and conclude all you want, but you’d be wrong.
“There are more surfers, shark spotters, helicopter tours for sharks, etcetera, etcetera,” says world-renowned shark researcher, Chris fallows. “our data, collected on a daily basis over the past 18 years at Seal Island in false Bay certainly does not reflect a growth in the shark population.”
According to fallows there has actually been a definite, albeit slow, decrease in the great white population. “There’s ongoing over-exploitation of the great white’s summer prey sources, such as other species of sharks. As such, I speculate that the white sharks that are still around are having to work harder to find their normal prey than ever before.”
What this means is that great whites are covering more ground and are possibly coming…
