There have never been any shark attacks within the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, states Parks Canada. I couldn’t tell the difference,” said Rouleau. Louis Rouleau, float plane pilot and owner of West Coast Wild Adventures, was hired by Fisheries and Oceans Canada in September 2011 to help with a blue shark survey. There have been rare occurrences of a great white being caught off the Pacific Coast, including in waters near the marine area of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, according to Parks Canada. waters, including common species like dogfish shark and endangered populations like basking shark. Parks Canada officials say there are over a dozen species of sharks swimming in B.C. RELATED: DFO declares Swiftsure and LaPerouse Banks critical habitats for killer whales (Dec. That being said, it’s that the killer whale populations aren’t doing really well,” Beeson said. There have been studies showing that a tagged great white shark, if it enters an area where there are known orcas around, or if there is an attack on a shark, all other tagged great white sharks go south. Transient killer whales are their main predator. “Generally speaking, great white sharks do not like transient killer whales and they try to stay out of their range. “They have very similar colouring and their dorsal fins are really similar,” she said, adding that she wouldn’t rule out the July 10 sighting off Wick Beach as being a great white. ![]() coastīeeson said salmon sharks are sometimes mistaken for great whites. READ ARTICLE: Salmon shark treats scientists to ‘surprising’ behaviour off B.C. Most recently, on July 23, the Alberni Valley News reported that scientists and students aboard an Oceans Network Canada expedition to explore pacific seamounts off the west coast of Vancouver Island had a rare sighting of a two-metre male salmon shark. For whatever reason, there does seem to be quite a few salmon sharks around,” said Beeson. We have noticed that they have been catching more salmon sharks recently. “We have a good working relationship with some of the fishermen and ice-packing facilities. I kept surfing.”Įmily Beeson, marine biologist at the Ucluelet Aquarium, said the surfer likely saw a salmon shark. And then, he or she pulled away and I didn’t see it again,” he said. I saw the grey on its side and I saw the white belly. It came up and did a swoop and then it pulled away like a fighter plane. “It disappeared and then came around diagonally behind me. Paulich, who took up surfing about a year ago after spending most of his twenties and thirties freestyle skiing in the Canadian Rockies, said the shark was resting beneath him, tranquilly.īut then the shark made a pass at him, Paulich recounts. You could tell that it wasn’t a whale,” he said. And I could tell there was a dorsal fin up the middle. ![]() And then, you could see the fins off the side. From the body, you know the tip of the nose, the sort of wider profile towards the middle of the waist and then gets narrower at the tail. He said he had paddled way out in front of parking lot ‘B’. “I was out there for a long time, and then, all of a sudden, I looked down and I saw the overview profile of a very big shark,” Paulich told the Westerly News. Surfer Andrew Paulich, 40, was in the water at Wickaninnish Beach in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on July 10 when he saw a large, about four-metre, shark.
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