Habitat
More than a dozen sharks are known to live in Gulf of Mexico including the bonnethead, scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead, tiger, lemon, bull, shortfin mako, sandbar, thresher, dusky, silky, Atlantic sharpnose, blacknose, finetooth, spinner and blacktip. Great white sharks have appeared and been tracked for years, with one weighing more than 2,000 pounds tracked off the coast of Louisiana in 2020.
[S]even guys from Idaho [on] their March 3 trip at Pensacola Beach, Florida. While fishing with retired professional ice hockey player John McLean, who now is a fishing guide (Big John Shark Fishing Adventures), the Idaho group hooked and landed a great white shark.
There are eight million sharks in the Gulf of Mexico; this is one of them.
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