Posted on 07/02/2019 9:47:42 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy has tagged its first two great white sharks of the season in Cape Cod Bay, according to a tweet the organization posted Monday afternoon. At least 11 white sharks were spotted and two were tagged by Greg Skomal, senior fisheries scientist with the state Division of Marine fisheries. All of the sharks were on Billingsgate Shoal. The two sharks that were tagged were 9 feet and 10 feet long. Skomal’s work with the conservancy is expanding into Cape Cod Bay this year, following frequent reports last year of sharks snagging fish caught by passengers on charter boats. In the past, experts have mostly focused on shark activity in the Outer Cape. The conservancy also tweeted a video of its research team tagging one of the sharks. As a member of the team tags a shark, a woman behind the camera says “Alright! First one in Cape Cod Bay!
The larger whites 12 feet and longer are more interested in seals and the relatively smaller ones are still eating fish like stripers and bluefish.
The influx of these relatively smaller whites IMHO shows he protection given by the Federfal Govt to white sharks is working. -Tom
The rat nutrition program in California is going along nicely too. No need to tag them, I guess.
They’re going to need a bigger boat.
I’ve seen this movie.
It doesn’t end well.....................
A problem here is people are used to frolicking in the saltwater for generations, but are now going to have to face up to the fact they may have company. - tom
Well, they voted for it. I imagine they want it.
That will bring in the Killer Whales.
They like Great White livers.
Beaches probably safe, just make sure there are more tasty people around you.
They limited to cod harvest, and that brought back the cod.
The cod recovery attracted the seals which are now very numerous as far south as New Jersey.
The seal attract the sharks that like to eat them.
Don’t look like a seal? You should be OK.
If you run into spotter pilots Wayne Davis or George Breen at breakfast at Chatham airport,ask them how many white sharks they have seen in a day of flying beyond the tagging area. The number is so high I won't print it as it shocking, and unbelievable. -Tom
Do they fly out of there? I took a ride on the open canopy biplane there 3 years ago out over Monomoy, saw tons of seals but without binos couldn't see much more.
If they reach that size , probably a white or a big tiger.-Tom
TRUE.
Northerners, who visit the beach, will just have to learn to live with the Whites, just as we folks of the Gulf Coast have learned to live with the very numerous Bulls & Tigers.
Btw, as of 01JUL19, we have had NO reports of any “visiting” Whites along the Texas coast.
Yours, TMN78247
Here is the problem people have in the white sharks domain.
We might not be on a white shark’s menu, but how does a shark determine a seal sized person isn’t as good a meal, or maybe a better meal than a seal?
A sample bite taken with large triangular serrated teeth can be a devastating problem for us, even if we are afterwards rejected as not being a suitable meal for the shark
They both like seals & sea lions. Usually the GW’s arrive first. When the Orca’s show up it spells doom for some unsuspecting GW Shark. They’ll kill it, eat it’s liver and leave the rest sink to the bottom to rot. Major calling card telling the big sharks to evacuate the immediate area until next seal breading season.
Oh, come on, now! Don’t leave me in suspense. Maybe I’ll never get to Chatham again in this life...
How many great whites have they seen?
Flying Cape Cod both sides, and Cape Cod Bay and Mass. Bay ,- 50. - Tom
The subject will be on the white shark situation developing here in Mass. and what can be done to mitigate it.
It will be live on Facebook with a public questioning period afterward, and will be written up in the newspaper the next day. - Tom
That's simple, hire Mayor Larry Vaughn and simply dismiss it as nothing.
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