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Great white sharks live in oceans all over the world. However, they prefer temperate and tropical water. South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S. have some of the highest populations.
There have been more than 1,200 shark incidents in Australia since 1791, of which 255 resulted in death, official data shows. Great white sharks were responsible for 94 of those deaths.
There is a reason why movie makers used a great white shark as the shark in the movie Jaws. These massive creatures are the largest predatory fish in the world and routinely hunt large mammals ...
The great white shark is arguably the world's largest-known extant macropredatory fish, and is one of the primary predators of marine mammals, such as pinnipeds and dolphins. The great white shark is also known to prey upon a variety of other animals, including fish, other sharks, and seabirds. It has only one recorded natural predator, the orca.
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While shark nets and drum lines share the same purpose, drum lines are more effective at targeting the three sharks that are considered most dangerous to swimmers: the bull shark, tiger shark and great white shark. [80] SMART drumlines can also be used to move sharks, which greatly reduces mortality of sharks and bycatch to less than 2%. [81]
An adult great white shark can grow to around 20 feet long and weigh over 4,000 pounds. It takes so much energy for a shark that size to propel itself into the air that the risk may not be worth ...
The IUCN lists global threats to great white sharks to include targeted commercial and sports fisheries, protective beach meshing, and "media-fanned campaigns to kill Great White Sharks after a biting incident occurs". [43] Some people against the policy also believe drum lines have the potential to attract sharks to popular beaches.