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Jersey Shore shark attacks of
Shark attacks in the US
The Jersey Shore shark attacks of were a series of shark attacks along the coast of New Jersey, in the United States, between July 1 and 12, , in which four people were killed and one critically injured.
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The incidents occurred during a deadly summer heat wave and polio epidemic in the United States that drove thousands of people to the seaside resorts of the Jersey Shore. Since , scholars have debated which shark species was responsible and the number of animals involved, with the great white shark and the bull shark most frequently cited.
Personal and national reaction to the fatalities involved a wave of panic that led to shark hunts aimed at eradicating the population of "man-eating" sharks and protecting the economies of New Jersey's seaside communities.
Resort towns enclosed their public beaches with steel nets to protect swimmers. Scientific knowledge about sharks before was based on conjecture and speculation.