Echoes of Jaws as Cape Cod learns to live with rise of the great white shark
by Josh Wood in Wellfleet, Massachusetts from Environment | The Guardian on (#4HD1Z)
A booming seal population is drawing the apex predator to the Massachusetts peninsula where contact with humans follows
When beachgoers arrive at Cahoon Hollow Beach in Wellfleet on Massachusetts' Cape Cod peninsula, the first thing they see is a large sign displaying a photo of a great white shark.
"WARNING" it reads. "Great white sharks hunt seals in the shallow water at this beach. People have been seriously injured or killed by sharks along this coastline."
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