A stunning video has captured the moment a great white shark snatches a fish from a line off the coast of Cape Cod.
This unusual encounter is a rare example of ‘shark depredation’ and involves these apex predators biting chunks out of fish while they are being caught.
Fishermen around the coast of Massachusetts have started noticing shark depredation occurring more and more frequently over the last three years.
However, this is the very first time that the fish-snatching behaviour has been observed underwater.
This clip was captured by National Geographic explorer and photographer Brian Skerry, a Massachusetts native with over 10,000 hours of
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