After another successful shark research season along Cape Cod, local scientists have now tagged more than 300 great white sharks since their tagging program started more than a decade ago.

Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, working with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, tagged 34 white sharks off the Cape during 22 research trips this season.

Since the Division of Marine Fisheries began its tagging program, 304 individual white sharks have been tagged off the Cape.

Also, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy for the second year used drones to collect video footage of white sharks in Cape Cod waters. The scientists have been looking at whether the technology is effective for shark surveillance off the Cape.

Many people have proposed using drones as a shark surveillance technology at local beaches, but the concern is that sharks could disappear from sight when the Cape waters turn murky.

“The footage collected is being used to investigate potential relationships between environmental conditions and predatory behavior and to evaluate the potential efficacy of a frequently proposed shark surveillance measure,” the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy posted.

AWSC senior scientist Megan Winton was recently down in South Carolina, where she tagged a nearly 3,000-pound massive great white shark. Winton and others were able to attach four tags to the shark, including a satellite spot tag that people can follow on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app. The shark named “LeeBeth” has since been pinging off of Georgia.

Meanwhile, a couple of sharks have been detected off the Massachusetts coast, even in the chilly mid-December waters. The nearly 10-foot male white shark named “Cabot” was detected off of Orleans this week, and the 10-foot female white shark named “Rose” was detected in Cape Cod Bay near Sandwich, according to the OCEARCH shark tracker.

Last month, members of the AWSC team attended the White Sharks Global conference in Australia.

Winton presented on her first-of-its-kind population estimate that was published earlier this year. She found that about 800 individual white sharks visited the waters off the Cape from 2015 to 2018. This count of 800 sharks is the first-ever estimate of white shark abundance in the North Atlantic Ocean.

“The conference provided a valuable opportunity to share information with the international white shark science community about ongoing research and education programs and learn from scientists working at other white shark hotspots around the world,” Winton said. “The last white shark focused conference was held in 2010, just as Cape Cod was emerging as a new hotspot.”