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Based upon capture-records or other indices of its
abundance, known or suspected Centres of Abundance are
considered here (in no specific order) as the shelf waters of
Southern Africa (particularly from Namibia to Natal); Eastern,
Western and particularly Southern Australia; New Zealand; the
Japanese archipelago; the North-eastern seaboard of North
America, especially Long Island and environs; the
Pacific coast of North America, primarily from Oregon to Baja;
the coasts of southern Mexico, Central Chile; the
Mediterranean Sea, primarily the Western-Central region,
Sicilian Channel and Tyrrhenian Sea.
It is stressed, however, that white sharks occur less
frequently at many sites elsewhere (e.g., Brazil, Caribbean,
Azores, Hawaii, North-West Africa; Philippines; Sri Lanka;
Seychelles, Gough Island, Chatham Islands, etc.) and that
periodicity and movements are poorly understood.
Limited trans-equatorial movement between temperate areas,
across equatorial waters by means of tropical submergence into
cooler, deeper water, is suspected.
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