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.…