How come we're hearing about so many shark attacks now?

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How come we’re hearing about so many shark attacks now?

Are there a lot more shark attacks going on, or are we just hearing about it more?

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1. Summer of the Shark

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Shark|

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2. In July/August they're ending the mating season and stocking up on groceries. Heard a shark expert

(didn't hear his name) explaining that there has been an abundance of food for them this year, especially along the Atlantic coast. As weather cools they migrate to other waters. Have seen aerials of Fla's east coast in July and there are hundreds of them that collect offshore. Pretty much anytime you're in the ocean, there are sharks poking around.

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3. Food in the water, we are not the top of the food chain with toes in the ocean, eh

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4. As the oceans get warmer, they're coming closer to shore to mate and hunt.

Personally, I'd like them to congregate just off Miami the next time the American Bar Association holds a convention there.

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7. This.

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5. It's a sign of bored media. Remember the summer of 2001? It was either Chandry Levy or sharks

Though I'm sure pollution and climate change are shifting their feeding grounds or something, too.

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6. It seems this years shark attacks...

have moved north, into the waters of New England. Is it because of warming ocean temperatures?

The sharks go where the food is, and giant bait baitballs of smaller fish are congregating off the New England state's coasts. Are the bait fish moving north?

[Ponietz]

8. Are ocean acidification and plankton relevant?

As plankton and fish decrease sharks will attack more frequently. Keep an eye on it. The media covered this story recently:
[https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/no-the-oceans-are-not-empty-of-plankton

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9. They played all the Jaws movies a couple weeks ago on

one of the cable channels.