Great white shark returns to Nova Scotian waters
Posted Jul 9, 2020 04:31:00 PM.
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A great white shark tagged by the OCEARCH team has returned to Nova Scotian waters.
Teazer pinged early Thursday morning south of the Aspotogan Peninsula near East Ironbound Island, not far from where the 10'9″, 651-pound sub-adult male was tagged by the research group early last October between Hirtles Beach and the LaHave Islands.
He's named after a ghost ship which, according to folklore, patrols Mahone Bay each year.
Teazer is the first shark to be tracked on the OCEARCH website swimming close to our province in the 2020 season.
Brunswick likely snuck by Nova Scotia on his way to the Northumberland Strait. On Tuesday, he was detected near New Brunswick's Kouchibouguac National Park.
Named for Brunswick, Georgia, the 8'9″ great white shark spent a lot of the 2019 summer and fall seasons hanging out near New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and the Magdalen Islands.
A female named Unama'ki — the Mi'kmaw word for Cape Breton Island — is also in Atlantic Canada. When pulled in by OCEARCH last year near Scatarie Island, she was the second biggest great white ever tagged by the group in the Northwest Atlantic.
On Sunday, the 15'5″ 2,076-pound shark pinged southeast of Newfoundland in the Grand Banks.
