Experts believe there's an ongoing rebound in shark populations in American waters but that's not a great reason to cancel your beach vacation plans.
Hueter was among the conservationists who pushed for shark protections including the 1993 Fishery Management Plan for Sharks of the Atlantic Ocean, which set up restrictions around all U.S. Atlantic federal shark fisheries and became the base for many rules still in place today. It also prohibited shark finning -- the hunting of sharks for their fins. The practice was later banned across the United States.
Information can also come from surveying those who are regularly keeping an eye out on the waters, like lifeguards and pilots. "If sharks ... wanted to bite people, I think we'd probably have about between 10 and 20,000 shark bites a day," said Naylor."But they spend their entire time trying to avoid us."
"At those sites, people and sharks were together 97 percent of the days that we surveyed. On a given survey day, there were probably half a dozen to a dozen times when a juvenile white shark was within 60 feet of a person in the water," said Lowe, who co-authored the study. But there are also individual measures anyone can take to keep safe. Stay in clear water and avoid areas with low visibility. And if you see schools of fish , get out of the water or move farther away to avoid any accidents.
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