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LONG BEACH - Swimmers and surfers could have some surprising company in the deep waters off the Southern California coast this summer.

Christopher Lowe, a marine biology professor at Cal State Long Beach, says new research shows that great white sharks are growing in numbers off the coast of California thanks in part to fishing regulations that were established in the mid '90s.

"It's a good sign because it means that the conservation and strategies put in place are working," he said.

Lowe, the director of Cal State Long Beach's Shark Lab, has been collaborating with the Monterey Bay Aquarium for eight years in a study of juvenile great whites.

His research will be featured in the Discovery Channel's Shark Week premiere program, "Great White Invasion," at 9 p.m. Sunday. The episode follows Lowe, a Long Beach resident, and a team of his students as they seek to learn more about great white populations and migratory patterns.

Southern California has long been a seasonal nursery for baby great whites, which prey on fish, rays and other sharks. Lowe believes their numbers are growing based on reported sightings and catches at fisheries. A 1994 ban on gill nets along the shoreline has helped the juvenile population recover, he said.

"It typically takes a population at least 10 years to start to recover, so we believe we're now starting to see the effects of the gill-netting regulation and other conservation efforts," he said.

The largest predatory fish on Earth, great whites are found in cool, coastal waters throughout the world. They grow to an average of 15 feet in length, although specimens more than 20 feet long have been recorded.

Despite its notoriety as a feared predator, many mysteries still surround the habits of this massive fish.

Great whites were previously thought to be coastal sharks, but Lowe said research through new electronic tagging shows that adults off the California coast actually migrate thousands of miles into open ocean each year.

"We still don't know what they're doing out there," he said, adding that one theory is the sharks are feeding on giant squid.

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