Posted on 08/04/2019 5:13:33 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
Sightings of great whites off the shores of Cape Cod are a daily occurrence: Since June 1 the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s sharktivity app indicates there have been more than 160. “When we are lucky enough to actually get eyes on a shark, it really is no surprise,” said Nate Sears, natural resources manager for the town of Orleans, an area whose beaches have already been closed 12 times since mid-June due to confirmed shark sightings.
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There is no shortage of suggestions and some are money makers from some groups with unproven products.
Both seals and sharks are Federally protected and we can not go back to the previous status quo.
So many organized groups with conflicting agendas are involved now, public meetings will be very contentious. -Tom-
The bottom line....stop chumming the waters for shark viewings.
You have more seals = more food. Then you chum the water for the tourists = more sharks = more shark attacks.
The shark watching operators need to go away.
I’m surprised nobody has ever blamed all these shark attacks on the book “Jaws”, or all the movies that have come afterwards. Let’s blame Hollywood!!
Before the Federal protection the seals had a bounty on them, and the White sharks were killed for their Jaws, and meat. -Tom
Black wet suit and black swim fins.
My father was a fur dresser. His father was also and got him into that line of work. Both my grand-mother and mother had beautiful, black, warm seal skin coats. As a youngster I used to love running my fingers through the fur.
Just sayin’...};^)
There are now wet suits designed with different colors and patterns to avoid that seal look. -Tom
I surfed Wellfleet and Nauset for decades. Went down there a month ago, nobody out.
Talked with the locals, nobody surfs anymore.
It used to be the best place in the east for surfing, now it’s done.
For what? A bunch of sharks and seals.
Let’s let bears and mountain lions return to kids playgrounds because “it’s their home, don’t cha know”
What? I was ready to blame them on Trump! Or video games...
In the past anyone in Mass. going into the ocean had one concern; How cold is the water going to be.
Now they have to factor in another consideration. -Tom
Have you seen many, or any wearing red, orange or yellow suits and swim fins?
You remember the bumper sticker from the early 80’s ‘newcomb hollow before the nuke us’ ?
LOL...shark looks up at the silhouette on the surface from 30 feet down..."Hey! Isn't that the Britney Spears themed wet suit?"
Heh, I'm only joshing ya!
‘Newcomb Hollow Before They Nuke Us’
Often good intentions are nothing, but trouble, when we try to change basic instincts of critters and Mother Nature.
A boogie boarder was eaten alive last year, and yet the fedgov and the envirowhackos have no culpability.
They would avoid solid colors, and ones I have seen for sale are black and white striped. -Tom
In the 19th century, no one swam in the ocean. It was considered inappropriate and an infringement on the domain of fish and other sea animals. When the march of industrialization commenced and the turn of the century with its Titanic like arrogance took to the seas, people started to view the ocean as a playground. Over the ensuing century and now 20 years into another, the ocean became another recreational venue for man. But then we became environmentally sensitive. We curtailed fishing rights, and urged the resurgence of all sorts of sea life , particularly those which are especially appetizing to sharks. So sharks, being sharks and a dangerous lot they are, have returned, courtesy of man, to claim their turf once again. We are the ones to blame. All this ecology saving stuff had a price to pay you know. And that price is we need to start swimming in backyard pools.
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