Scientists in Massachusetts have tagged their first white shark of the season — marking the first time one has been tagged in a previously unexplored area of the state .

The announcement comes after Greg Skomal, senior fisheries scientist at the Division of Marine Fisheries , said his research on white sharks’ “fine-scale behavior — specifically, predatory behavior,” would expand into other parts of the Atlantic Ocean off of Cape Cod this summer.

In their past 15 years of research off Cape Cod, the scientists have exclusively studied white sharks off the Outer Cape with tools like acoustic, satellite and camera tagging by scientists on boats and pilots on shark-spotter planes.

This year, those studies have gone to the other side — on the Cape Cod Bay, where the first shark of the

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