Some Sharks Bite Humans as a Form of Self-Defense The research team also looked at shark bite data from around the world and compared it to that in French Polynesia They broke the data down into "provoked" and "unprovoked" bites Since 1863, nearly 7,000 shark bites were recorded in the Global Shark Attack Files Of those bite incidents, 322 bites were classified as “provoked ”
Canadian Shark Attack Registry - Shark Science Requins However, Canadian statistics don’t tell the entire story Were it not for the low water temperatures and the relative small number of white sharks and people in Atlantic Canada and along the coasts of the St Lawrence, the number of incidents could potentially resemble that of other countries with a significant white shark population such as Australia, where a handful of violent encounters
WCYB - The Florida Museum of Natural History released its. . . The Florida Museum of Natural History released its International Shark Attack File statistics for last year, stating it investigated 137 “alleged shark-human interactions” worldwide in 2021