FactFile: the facts on shark bites and shark numbers
- Written by Jane Williamson, Associate Professor in Marine Ecology, Macquarie University
The CSIRO has provided new estimates of population sizes for White Sharks in Australian waters.Fiona Ayerst/Shutterstock
Are there more sharks in Australian waters than there used to be, and are interactions between humans and shark increasing? Some Australian politicians haveclaimed that to be the case.
Let’s look at the research.
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