Great white shark sightings becoming more common, say Mi’kmaw fishermen – CBC
February 5th 2024
Mi’kmaw knowledge keepers share strategies to fend off sharks
When fisherman Matthew James Basque-Augustine saw a sharp-looking fin caught in his lines, he was sure it belonged to a great white shark.
“There’s a lot of fear because I wasn’t in a very big boat,” he said.
It happened about 10 years ago — just off of the cape of Richibuctou, about 65 kilometres north of Moncton — and shark sightings were almost non-existent there at the time.
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