[Capt. Tom]

The tagging operation has moved from the oceanside of Cape Cod to the Bay side the Boson /Plymouth side.

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

[Steely Tom]

The rat nutrition program in California is going along nicely too. No need to tag them, I guess.

[immadashell]

They’re going to need a bigger boat.

[Red Badger]

I’ve seen this movie.

It doesn’t end well.....................

[blueunicorn6]

That will bring in the Killer Whales.

They like Great White livers.

[babble-on]

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.

[dainbramaged]

Back in the early 70's, I worked on albacore tuna boats based in southern California - these were called "bait boats" because we fished with bamboo poles hard wired to barbless hooks "in the racks" with live anchovies.
The bait lived in big tanks on deck with circulating pumps, and the overflow hose left a scent in the water that attracted huge numbers of sharks when we stopped to drift for the evening. Imagine two hundred of them circling your boat every night.
Many times a shark would reach up and clamp its mouth on the outflow hose for a taste - I would smack them with the gaff but the smell was too much and they couldn't resist.
I didn't know a great white from a blue shark at the time, "Jaws" hadn't been published yet. More than one fifteen footer that cruised by must have been Carcharodon carcharias, made famous by Peter Benchley.

[TMN78247]

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

[Capt. Tom]

Just accepted to be a participant in a newspaper shark panel discussion on July 30,at the Harbormasters Building in Marshfield Mass at 11 AM-

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