Great white sharks in the Atlantic are creeping farther and farther up the east coast of North America. Once rare sights in New England and Atlantic Canada, these giant marine predators are now being spotted more often, much to the surprise of fishermen, surfers, and beachgoers. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

A new cross-border study tracked 260 great whites fitted with acoustic tags between 2014 and 2023, giving scientists their clearest picture yet of how and why the sharks are pushing deeper into Canadian waters.

They found that the number of great white shark sightings off Halifax, Nova Scotia, has increased by 2.4 times from 2018 to 2022, while the number has increased nearly four times along the Cabot Strait tha

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