Where Are Cookie Cutter Sharks?

The cookiecutter shark also lives in the waters of the Indo-Pacific from Mauritius to New Guinea, Lord Howe Island, and New Zealand north to Japan and east to the Hawaiian Islands. It is found off Easter Island and the Galapagos in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Do cookie cutter sharks attack humans?

Despite their reputation, sharks historically have not posed a widespread danger to people. Only two other cases involving attacks on humans by cookiecutter sharks have been widely accepted by experts, but both those attacks were on human cadavers, one a drowning victim and the other a suicide.

Are there cookie cutter sharks in Florida?

The phenomenon has been documented in South Florida by Florida Atlantic University researcher Stephen Kajiura, who has flown the coastline from Boca Raton to Jupiter during blacktip shark season for nine years. In 2018, the largest number of sharks counted on any given flight was 2,800.