Cape Town Great White Sharks Disappear

Great white sharks have suddenly disappeared from one of their favorite hangouts.

Cape town great white sharks disappear.

Sightings of white sharks carcharodon carcharias have crashed this. Working in tandem with a conservation group called shark. As great white sharks disappear cape town searches for reasons by. The apex predator.

Then in 2017 the number of great white sightings recorded by the shark spotters plummeted to 57. In the space of three years cape town s apex predators had literally disappeared. Johannesburg south africa not a single great white shark has been spotted this year in a bay on south africa s coast which until recently. For the past 18 months the cape town municipality has been monitoring the gradual disappearance of great white sharks from false bay.

In 2018 this figure dropped further to just 50. By linda nordling aug. The orcas that eat them the fishermen who sell their prey to australia for use in fish and chips. Cape town residents don t know who to blame for the disappearance of their great white sharks.

Cape town s world famous great whites have vanished according to local shark spotters. The city of cape town along with its shark spotter program has noted that there is an absence of great white sharks in the false bay area. Experts are baffled by the development. So where have they gone and why.

September 30 2019 12 00 am edt updated on september 30 2019 10 37 am edt 5 03. The shark spotters applied research programme has been monitoring great white activity and behavioural ecology in false bay since 2004. Great white sharks have disappeared from cape town south africa with nary a single shark having been spotted over the past 18 months. Great whites vanish from cape town s waters 06 13.