A great white shark whose wanderings along Nova Scotia’s Atlantic coast have made him an East Coast celebrity may be headed for Newfoundland.
Hilton tweeted late Thursday from a spot about midway between Cape Breton and Newfoundland, and suggested he might be headed for the easternmost province or the Grand Banks.
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The 600-kilogram male shark was tagged by the research group Ocearch, which curates a charming, wry Twitter feed chronicling his movements as he migrates along the eastern coast of North America.
The group believes there is mating site off Canada’s East Coast, and plans a Nova Scotia research trip later this month.
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Hilton, who lingered last year near Mahone Bay, N.S., moved north after arriving this July, passing by Halifax and then Cape Breton this week.
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His current trajectory has him potentially heading in a direction just south of the French-owned islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon and toward Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula.
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