phosis, then most P. vetuluuh&d completed trans- 

 formation by about 120 d old or 4 mo. The influ- 

 ence of substrate and water depth on rate of 

 transformation in this species could be clarified 

 only with laboratory experiments. A detailed de- 

 scription of body morphology versus age, as 

 opposed to length would yield useful information 

 on the variability in the timing of transforma- 

 tion. Unfortunately, we do not have such data. 



School of Oceanography 



Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oreg. 



Present address: Department of Oceanography 



Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. B3H SJ5 Canada 



Joanne Lyczkowski Laroche 



Gulf Coast Research Laboratory 



P.O. Drawer AG, Ocean Springs, MI 39561, 



Acknowledgments 



The authors gratefully acknowledge the assist- 

 ance of the following persons: Dorinda Oster- 

 mann, Betsy Washington, H. K. Phinney, Sally 

 Richardson, and Wayne A. Laroche. 



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OBSERVATIONS ON LARGE WHITE 



SHARKS, CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS, 



OFF LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK 



Fishermen report sightings of large white 

 sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, off Long Island 

 and southern New England every year. A pop- 

 ular book on shark fishing (Mundus and Wisner 

 1971), reported encounters with 23 large white 

 sharks between 1958 and 1966 off Montauk 

 Point, N.Y. Five of these were landed and 

 weighed or estimated to range from 660 to 2,025 

 kg. Bigelow and Schroeder (1948) noted the 

 occurrence of a few white sharks in southern 

 New England waters. Otherwise most docu- 

 mented captures of white sharks off eastern 

 North America are from coastal locations north 

 of Cape Cod, Mass. (Schroeder 1938, 1939; 

 Bigelow and Schroeder 1948, 1953, 1958; 

 Scattergood et al. 1951; Scattergood and Coffin 

 1957; Scattergood and Goggins 1958; Scatter- 

 good 1959, 1962; Skud 1962; Templeman 1963; 

 Arnold 1972). Information in these reports is 

 limited to location sightings and morphometric 

 observations. 



We report here our detailed examinations of 

 two white sharks landed off Long Island, N. Y., in 

 1964 and 1979. We also describe the feeding be- 

 havior of white sharks that were near a dead fin 

 whale, Balaenoptera physalus. 



Material Examined 



One of us (J. G. Casey) caught a 406 cm TL 

 (total length) immature female white shark on 

 rod and reel 7.2 km south of Amagansett, N.Y., 

 (lat. 40°53' N, long. 72°06' W) on 5 October 1964. 

 When landed, its stomach was everted. Weight 

 was estimated at 1,500 lb (680 kg) and morpho- 

 metric measurements were taken to the nearest 

 millimeter. 



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