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Bull sharks linger in warming Sydney waters
Bull sharks linger in warming Sydney waters
edited by Andrew Zinin
Bull sharks are lingering off Sydney's beaches for longer periods each year as oceans warm, researchers said Friday, predicting they may one day stay all year.
The predators are migratory, swimming north in winter when Sydney's long-term ocean temperatures dip below 19 degrees Celsius (66 degrees Fahrenheit) to bask in the balmier waters off Queensland.
A team of scientists looked at 15 years of acoustic tracking of 92 tagged migratory sharks in an area including Bondi Beach and Sydney Harbor.
Records show the sharks now spend an average of 15 days longer off Sydney's coast in summer than they did in 2009, said James Cook University researcher Nicolas Lubitz.
"If they're staying longer, it means that people and prey animals have a longer window of overlap with them." ..................(more)
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-bull-sharks-linger-sydney.html