Cape Town Great White Sharks Disappear

Cape town s world famous great whites have vanished according to local shark spotters.

Cape town great white sharks disappear.

Cape town residents don t know who to blame for the disappearance of their great white sharks. Great white sharks have suddenly disappeared from one of their favorite hangouts. Sightings of white sharks carcharodon carcharias have crashed this. Great white sharks which support south africa s shark diving industry and have been responsible for a number of fatal attacks off cape town haven t been seen in the region for 18 months.

By linda nordling aug. September 30 2019 12 00 am edt updated on september 30 2019 10 37 am edt 5 03. For the past 18 months the cape town municipality has been monitoring the gradual disappearance of great white sharks from false bay. Working in tandem with a conservation group called shark.

Experts are baffled by the development. Great whites vanish from cape town s waters 06 13. As great white sharks disappear cape town searches for reasons by. Great white sharks have disappeared from cape town south africa with nary a single shark having been spotted over the past 18 months.

Then in 2017 the number of great white sightings recorded by the shark spotters plummeted to 57. 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. The shark spotters applied research programme has been monitoring great white activity and behavioural ecology in false bay since 2004. The apex predator.

So where have they gone and why. In the space of three years cape town s apex predators had literally disappeared. The orcas that eat them the fishermen who sell their prey to australia for use in fish and chips. In 2018 this figure dropped further to just 50.