CALIFORNIA COAST EXPECTING A SURGE IN GREAT WHITE SHARKS
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California was one of the first places to protect great whites — in 1994!
Before California's 1994 white shark protection law, populations had plummeted. The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 also helped restore seals and bait fish — the prey that now draws sharks back to shore.
Scientists named a Pacific hotspot the 'White Shark Café'!
Each spring, adult great whites tagged off California migrate ~1,200 miles to a mid-Pacific zone dubbed the 'White Shark Café' — thought to be a feeding and mating ground — before returning to the coast.
