Posted on 09/11/2015 7:34:06 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
More sharks than ever are swimming along the East Coast, federal researchers announced this week, amid a busy summer in which a record number of the fish have attacked North Carolina beachgoers. Scientists with the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) captured and tagged 2,835 sharks in waters from Florida to North Carolina in 2015, up from 1,831 in 2012 -- the last year the survey was completed. Scientists recorded the length, sex, age and location of each of the sharks caught. The survey has been ongoing for 29 years.
Lisa Natanson, a scientist at the Narragansett Laboratory of NOAA Fisheries’ Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) and leader of the coastal shark survey, told FoxNews.com that the rise in the shark population is tied to federal regulations limiting commercial shark fishing, which were enacted in 1993.
“They took off a lot of fishing pressure of these species and it gives them a chance to come back,” Natanson said.
The survey – conducted every two to three years -- covers routes along the East Coast where many species migrate as waters become warmer, making it easier to keep tabs on the population, according to the NOAA. Sandbar, Atlantic sharpnose, dusky, and tiger sharks were the most common amongst the 13 species caught this year onboard the 100-foot charter fishing vessel Eagle Eye II, which set sail from Port Royal, S.C. and Ft. Pierce, Fla., from April to May.
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So the bottom line is that we are seeing more sharks because of global warming????
Is this why the Patriots keep winning?
Great White Privilege?
Great White Privilege?
Sharks are just scarfing up white meat.
This happened less than a week ago. Unfortunately, the shark died anyway. But the effort and the footage is amazing.
Read the whole story at the above link.
But, but after the movie JAWS came out, scientists were worried that sharks would become an endangered species with all the anti-shark activity which started at that time!
PERFECT !!"
great Gay sharks.
Lawyers are safe...Professional Courtesy.
I thought they broke up after that fire.
Too soon?
Once bitten, twice shy?
That’s not what Gizelle says...
Great Whites are on the protected list, and will probably stay there until they eat some politician’s kid.
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