September 26, 2025 — Researchers have been studying white sharks on Cape Cod for nearly two decades, and they’ve been noticing some changing habits over the last couple of years following what seems like an explosion of sightings.
Greg Skomal and his team of researchers at the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife are in the thick of white shark research — on the water, studying and tagging several days a week — but they’ve been noticing a trend.
“The number of sharks would increase fairly dramatically through the month of July. And we have noticed that is not happening anymore. Our big months now, it starts in late August, but it’s September, October,” Skomal, of MassWildlife, said. “These animals are migrating past us and getting up to Canada, getting up into the Gulf of Maine a lot faster than they used to.”