The shark was tagged in September by researchers from non-profit OCEARCH near Nova Scotia in Canada,
Unama'ki is the second largest shark that OCEARCH has ever caught and tagged in the northwest Atlantic. Its name means"land of the fog" in the language of the Mi'kmaq First Nations people, which is what they call the area of Cape Breton where the animal was tagged., hugging the U.S. coastline all the way down to the Florida Keys, where it was located on Saturday—a journey of around 2,000 miles.
"As a big mature female, Unama'ki has the potential to lead us to the site where she gives birth and exposes a new white shark nursery," the non-profit said. As a result of their research, the OCEARCH team now think that there are two sub-populations of white sharks in the northwest Atlantic: one that congregates in the area of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the late summer and early fall, and another that aggregates in Canada.
"Something fascinating that we've noticed is that there are some animals that go to the Cape Cod area in the summertime to feed. And then there are others, that have bypassed cape cod and come up Nova Scotia to feed," he said."So right now we are looking at the possibility of two distinct groups or subpopulations of white sharks in the northwest Atlantic."
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