MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • July 17, 2022
State and local officials have logged more than a dozen reports of great white sharks off the Maine coast so far this year. And biologists say there are likely to be more white sharks here in the years to come. In the year and a half since the state began tracking the sharks, the department has detected 38 white sharks on its receivers. We likely can expect white sharks in greater numbers in Maine in the future, Davis said, given that the overall population is larger in the western North Atlantic than it once was, and there is a robust seal population, a prime food source of great white sharks.