Posted on 06/28/2020 1:18:20 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
Orleans Natural Resources Manager Nathan Sears said two shark attacks on seals have already been documented in the past couple of weeks; one at Nauset Beach, the town’s big oceanside beach, and one a couple of miles south at the first exit on the southern off-road trail system.
Cape Cod Ocean Community co-founder Heather Doyle said the pilot network — which uses volunteer pilots who routinely fly over Cape Cod beaches to radio shark reports to people below who have received free radios supplied by her group — is bigger this year with more participants and municipal lifeguards in various towns requesting radios to monitor pilot alerts.
...the reality is that surfers, paddleboarders and even swimmers will be using unguarded ocean areas to catch waves.
“The key to this is changing the behavior of people. They have to recognize that there’s a peak season when these animals are here. You shouldn’t be relying on someone actually locating the shark to decide how you are going to recreate in the water,” Sears said.
State Division of Marine Fisheries shark scientist Gregory Skomal tagged three great whites June 18, his first day on the water this year.
Town and park officials point to research by Skomal and the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy that showed that sharks were everywhere, from the tip of Monomoy around Provincetown to the mouth of the canal in Cape Cod Bay. Buoys that record the unique identifying signals from tags on over 200 great white sharks in 2019 showed that the bulk of the population, and the biggest sharks, still appear to reside along the Outer Cape’s Atlantic beaches. Researchers feel it’s likely there are many more sharks not being tracked.
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How long before the great “white” shark needs to be renamed
Not long, see Goliath grouper. Used to have a different name.
Stay out of the Ocean.
Perhaps a relaxing walk in the woods, picking blueberries, in bear country, could be a substitute? LOL -Tom
YIKES.
Come on RR, this is an opportunity to point out to people that think "white" is "great", that this "great white" is a menace to society and should be eliminated.
It’s true. You got two choices relax and enjoy or live in fear like picking morels. Learn or get burnt. The term get out and live a little means a lot to me. Asphalt, ocean, or woods. I slept here all night, get outta the way I got cabin fever.
Can't imagine why.
Glad I’m not alone. At least if you’re fighting something on land like a Bear or a BLM Terrorist, you have a chance!
I’d like to see that Great White fight me on land, LOL!
We need to import some Orca’s to eat the seals and shark liver.
Kinda silly to put yourself in a predator’s natural habitat, but that’s just me. :)
Which is why I would also never consider jogging on the Serengeti Plains in Africa.
You mean Joo Fish?
Great White..
That’s racist, or something!
Wow, 14-day quarantine requirement. And a tourist who comes to Cape Cod probably spends no more than a week or two on vacation there.
Born and raised in West Yarmouth. When my family rented an attached apartment to our home, we regularly had people stay from Montreal.
Tried to look up some statistics on what percent of Cape tourists are out of State. No lucky in finding any stats, though an older PDF says the Cape sees 5.2 million tourists.
My guess is maybe one-third of Cape Cod tourist dollars are from out of State. Anybody got a source?
Privileged sharks.
Yep - the threat remains constant - they have teeth....
Vermont, for once, isn’t quite as nuts. They’ve got a restriction in place that uses the number of cases per county. If you come from a county with less that 400 cases per million, you don’t have to sekf-quarantine.
Maine is still nuts, though. Two week self-quarantine unless you have a negative WuFlu test result within 72 hours of entering the state.
Sounds like your area’s local shark researchers are learning a LOT about the local GW. = CONGRADS.
Yours, TMN78247
They are gathering for the 4th of July Feast.....................er, I mean, ‘fest’................
Just the hassle of going through the testing will discourage people from visiting.
Many retired people from the Northeast live in the South but want to travel up north in the summertime to visit relatives.
These lockdown policies will really hurt the Democrat tourist states.
Tom,
The RV’s that are out on sand bar south of Nauset Beach at the north edge of Chatham Harbor, are those four wheel drive? Are these truck campers with 4WD? That is what is required to overnight camp/fish on Plum Island/Newbury, MA. at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge.
I was looking at Google Earth images of what appeared to be big RV’s on the outer cape recently. Can a regular 2WD RV get an overland beach permit from the National Park Service?
I know you can drive out there pretty easy up at Race Point. It seemed like there were a lot of RV’s out there in the section from Orleans down to Chatham whenever the satellite took the image last year.
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