The Potential for Great White Sharks to Frequent the Long Island Sound

• Main Author: McCarthy, Jake
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB) 2019
• Subjects: sharks; Long Island; New England; Ocean; Natural and Applied Sciences; Long Island Sound; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://orb.binghamton.edu/alpenglowjournal/vol5/iss1/3; https://orb.binghamton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=alpenglowjournal

There are a few species of sharks that regularly inhabit the coastal waters of Long Island, New York. Rising water temperatures and increasing human/seal populations in the New England/Long Island region have the potential to cause alterations in local species composition, especially as white shark...