many localities but does not appear to be peirticularly abundant, 

 except possibly in Australia and South Africa. Goadby (1959) 

 reported it as "very prevalent" in winter along the south and 

 east coasts of Australia, and Smith (1961) stated it is "not 

 uncommon" around South Africa. Although it was presumed to be a truly 

 oceanic species, Strasburg (1958) had no longline record of it for 

 the entire central Pacific. 



The white shaxk is reported to be quite irreguleir in its 

 occurrence (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1948; and others) . However, 

 available data indicate that in certain regions it occurs fairly 

 regulaxly. Postel (1958) presented catch data and stated that 

 the white shark occurs with apparent regularity during the latter 

 half of May in the Gulf of Tunis. Records given by Gudger (1950) 

 and Scattergood ( 1962a) showed that the white shark is neither 

 irregular nor rare along the coast of northeastern United States. 

 Gudger gave records for the Buzzard's Bay area of Massachusetts 

 from 1871 to 1927^ and Scattergood summarized New England records 

 (Cape Cod northward) from 1931 to I96O, including detailed data 

 on 12 specimens taken in the Gulf of Maine, 8 of them during July 

 and August of I96O. Backus (1957^ I960) also gave records for Massa- 

 chusetts. Thus, the white shark is a regular visitor to New England 

 waters, first appearing there in spring. During July and August 

 it appears to achieve peak abundance and has been reported as late 

 as November. 



In the Atlantic, the white shark has been recorded from 

 St. Pierre, Newfoundland south to Brazil, including the West Indies 

 and the Gulf of Mexico. On the eastern side, records are available 

 from Norway south to the Cape of Good Hope, including the offshore 

 island groups (Belloc, 193h; Bigelow and Schroeder, 1948; Poll, I95I; 

 Cousteau, 1953; and others) . 



On the Pacific coast of the United States the white shark has 

 been reported several times from Washington (Bonham, 19^2; LeMeir, 

 1951) i Pike (1962) recently recorded it from Queen Charlotte Islands, 

 British Columbia. Royce (I963) reported a specimen from Craig, 

 Alaska, and gave further information on its occurrence in south- 

 eastern Alaska. Specimens occasionally are seen or taken off northern 

 and central California (Fitch, 19^9; Kenyon, 1959) • Seven small 

 ones were taken in a three-day period from the pier at Scripps 

 Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California (unpublished data). 

 There also are records from Panama (Kean, 1944) and Chile (Philippi, 

 1887) on the eastern side of the Pacific Ocean. Elsewhere in the 

 Pacific, records are available from Hawaii, Bikini, Philippine Islands, 

 Japan, China, Korea, Bonin Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and 

 Indonesian waters (Phillipps, 1927; Reeves, 1927; Fowler, 194l; Umali, 

 I95O; Schultz et al., 1953). Fowler (l94l) stated that the white 

 shark occurs from Polynesia to the west coast of South America but 

 did not give definite records. 



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