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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I was thinking you were going to say going for a jog on the South side of Chicago.
They already have. Not just Dems my FRiend. For example, a guy I know has a beach house he owns in York Beach, ME. He makes most of his yearly mortgage from June 1st to Labor Day. About $4500/week. York is the first exit on I95 over the bridge from NH.
It is less than an hour drive from the north side of Boston. Therefore, many of his summer renters over the years are from MA. There are 8 million people in MA, as opposed to 3 million in ME, NH & VT combined. With the Covid-19 restrictions on MA residents entering ME the last month his house has NOT been rented. He is going to stay there this July 4th week. He is hoping that the people for July and August do not cancel.
He is NOT a Democrat.
I am not familiar with the rules today on RVS ,called by me "Beach Buggies".
Maybe a Capie on this list can help you out. -Tom
Yesterday, July 2, at Chapin Beach in Denis on Cape Cod, at 2:45 PM, lifeguards reported seeing a white shark breach while chasing a seal.
Chapin beach is on the Plymouth/Boston side of Cape Cod.
We are seeing more seals now, on that side of the Cape.-Tom
Get my Inuit Relatives down there.
We’ll fix it.
Believe me that idea has been tried.
I wish Freeper Makana would post and give an idea of the various unsuccessful solutions that have been tried.
NO solutions are possible as long as the seals and white sharks are protected. -Tom
INTERESTING.
Btw, what are the regulations on catch, weigh, measure, tag & releasing BIG sharks in that area??
(I have just “fallen heir to” a 120# class rod/reel & some other HD gear & want to try it out on a monster shark.)
Note: Other than an OCCASIONAL Big Tiger, we have FEW sharks along the TX coast that one needs a 120# class rig for.
(My usual shark fishing rig for this area is 50# class.)
BTW, the previous/deceased owner of the 120# class rig bought it to fish for Goliath Grouper.
Yours, TMN78247
I agree. I was just being facetious,
Because of my wife's health,(Alzheimers) I don't do any offshore fishing any more, so I am not up on the ever changing shark protections, and lengths for the ones you can take or the number you can take.
Besides Federal you will have to also meet the State rules.
When I stopped shark fishing -Basking-Dusky-Sandbar-sandtiger-and whites were protected in my area.
A 50 wide with 60 or80 lb test was the biggest reel we used ,usually a 50 with 60 lb line, because it was a standup rig.
If you use that heavier reel ,it might end up in a rod holder.- Tom
MY MOST SINCERE CONDOLENCES on your lady’s health problem.
(I lost my mother in SEP 2017 to that AWFUL disease/condition.)
I’ll ask someone else.
Your FR friend & fellow “shark nut”, TMN78247
Expect more of this in Mass. this summer and fall.-Tom
Chapin's used to be a great bar restaurant down there.
Something tells me you now prefer the bar a the Chatham Bars Inn.
I'll bet in 90 deg. weather a pina colada tastes good there. -Tom
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