Cape Cod’s great whites aren’t waiting for fishermen to throw back the scraps.

Remarkable new footage captured off Massachusetts shows a juvenile female great white shark rocketing from the murky water and snatching a hooked fish directly off an angler’s line. The encounter, filmed June 29 by National Geographic Explorer and photographer Brian Skerry, offers a rare underwater look at a behavior known as depredation — when a predator steals or damages a fisherman’s catch.

Check out the footage below.

“It was so sudden, it wasn’t even a second,” Skerry said. “She just rocketed through and then it was over.” Slow-motion footage shows the shark twisting before grabbing the fish sideways, which Skerry described as taking it “like a loaf of bread.”

Even more interesting, the shark appears to avoid the lure itself.

“She grabs it from the side, and it almost seems intentional that she’s not grabbing where the lure is,” Skerry told WBZ-TV. “I do think there’s some decisions being made.”

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Massachusetts shark biologist Greg Skomal told National Geographic it was the first underwater footage he’d seen documenting white-shark depredation. And local fishermen say the behavior is becoming increasingly common.

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Charter captain Hap Farrell said he heard of at least 50 incidents this summer alone, while captain Doug Brown personally experienced about 15.

Cape Cod has become one of the planet’s major seasonal great-white hotspots. Research estimated roughly 800 individual whites visited the region between 2015 and 2018, with activity peaking through summer and fall. Their resurgence has largely followed the recovery of gray seals, which now number roughly 30,000 to 50,000 around the Cape.

And the sharks have been making themselves known this season.

Just recently on Nantucket, another great white attacked a seal in water only a few feet deep, turning the shallows red as stunned witnesses watched from shore.

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For fishermen, that growing shark population presents a new problem: sometimes, you hook dinner.

And sometimes, something bigger wants it first.