White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias
New York Bight, off Montauk
The waters off Montauk are a documented white shark nursery — the New York Bight is where Atlantic juveniles spend their first summers, tagged and tracked in ongoing research. Adults pass offshore; you will almost certainly never see one from the beach, and that is normal.
Best months
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- Best time of day
- N/A — a research story more than a sighting
- How to see
- Follow the tagging research; juveniles are offshore and encounters from shore are vanishingly rare.
- Operator
- NOAA Fisheries
- Cost
- Free
- Age
- All ages
- Accessibility
- N/A
- Responsible viewing
- Protected in U.S. Atlantic waters — no targeting, possession or landing.
- Weather / sea state
- N/A