They have a platform boat that raises the fish out of the water so a crew of biologist's can get measurements and samples for scientific research, and return the shark safely back into the water.
IMHO a disadvantage I believe they have, is they don't use a spotter plane. -Tom
This is a shame. The more we know about these animals the better. People thrashing around in the surf look like seals feeding and swimming. The Great Whites are a risk a swimmer assumes until we find a way to move the seals out. Predators seek food. It’s their job.
I’d bet everything that I have in the bank (which isn’t much) that the CAP pilots would volunteer to be “aerial shark spotters”, IF they were asked.
(To paraphrase a Bible verse: “Those who ask not, neither do they receive.”)
Fyi, we Texas Master Naturalists ask the CAP for help in our various conservation projects & they never say “NO”, to my personal knowledge.
Both the GREYHOUND UNDERGROUND & FAST FRIENDS also uses CAP aircraft to move “off the track” adoptable greyhounds around the USA, too.
Yours, TMN78247
Great White Sharks have contributed so much to this world.
Their work in medicine, music and physics is amazing.
They also like to eat people.
Mark
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“IMHO a disadvantage I believe they have, is they don’t use a spotter plane. -Tom”
The disadvantage they have is that they are not looking where the sharks are. If the sharks are feeding on seals, their natural food, and in the shallows where they have been for a few centuries, who would they think they can lure them out to feed on bait when the correct situation for them is in the shallows? They are happy where they are. You need to go there.
rwood
Insight: More prey, more sharks. Thank the environmentalists for “saving” sea mammals so they can be eaten by ever increasing shark predation.
Off Nantuckett the state was afraid they might inadvertently catch a great Black Obama shark