Open-ocean buffet: what draws great whites to the White Shark Café
Researchers tracing great white shark migrations found that the so-called White Shark Café, a remote open-ocean corridor between Baja California and Hawaii, hosts a surprisingly rich deep-water food web. In 2018, a voyage equipped with advanced tags revealed abundant life at depths satellites can’t reach, suggesting the area serves as a feeding and possibly mating ground. The discovery turns the Café from a mythical ‘desert’ into a real ecological hotspot, underscoring the need for protection of high-seas habitats.
