His name is Ironbound, and he's traveled 13,000 miles since 2019.
It’s not unusual to find sharks along the Jersey shore — after all, the state of New Jersey includes 130 miles of Atlantic coastline and is home to a number of shark species, from mako sharks to dogfish and even the occasional whale shark. Great whites reside here, too: In 2018, a great white nursery was found in the New York-New Jersey Bight.
He was swimming along the New Jersey shoreline as recently as May 9, but today he appears to be about 500 miles south, just off the coast of North Carolina, according to his tracker. Ironbound has traveled 13,000 miles since 2019, when he was tagged. Hueter says that great whites migrate each year, spending summers near Canada and then spending winters as far south as the eastern Gulf of Mexico. This is about the time of year when they start heading back north.
But although the great white is known as the world’s largest predatory fish, it is also classified as a vulnerable species under the International Union for Conservation of Species Red List, with a decreasing population caused partly from becoming bycatch in fishing nets along with fish destined for dinner tables.
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