There is no shortage of suggestions and some are money makers from some groups with unproven products.
Both seals and sharks are Federally protected and we can not go back to the previous status quo.
So many organized groups with conflicting agendas are involved now, public meetings will be very contentious. -Tom-
The bottom line....stop chumming the waters for shark viewings.
You have more seals = more food. Then you chum the water for the tourists = more sharks = more shark attacks.
The shark watching operators need to go away.
I’m surprised nobody has ever blamed all these shark attacks on the book “Jaws”, or all the movies that have come afterwards. Let’s blame Hollywood!!
I surfed Wellfleet and Nauset for decades. Went down there a month ago, nobody out.
Talked with the locals, nobody surfs anymore.
It used to be the best place in the east for surfing, now it’s done.
For what? A bunch of sharks and seals.
Let’s let bears and mountain lions return to kids playgrounds because “it’s their home, don’t cha know”
You remember the bumper sticker from the early 80’s ‘newcomb hollow before the nuke us’ ?
Often good intentions are nothing, but trouble, when we try to change basic instincts of critters and Mother Nature.
In the 19th century, no one swam in the ocean. It was considered inappropriate and an infringement on the domain of fish and other sea animals. When the march of industrialization commenced and the turn of the century with its Titanic like arrogance took to the seas, people started to view the ocean as a playground. Over the ensuing century and now 20 years into another, the ocean became another recreational venue for man. But then we became environmentally sensitive. We curtailed fishing rights, and urged the resurgence of all sorts of sea life , particularly those which are especially appetizing to sharks. So sharks, being sharks and a dangerous lot they are, have returned, courtesy of man, to claim their turf once again. We are the ones to blame. All this ecology saving stuff had a price to pay you know. And that price is we need to start swimming in backyard pools.
"How about setting up asylum/detention camps and deportation camps all along the Cape Cod beaches... Then instruct the illegal aliens that, to get their food and medicines, they must take 2-3 baths per day...
Eventually all the sharks die from indigestion..."
It is fascinating to read what is happening on Cape Cod since Arthur Medici died. Like the movie Jaws brought to life...tourism vs safety.
Great White Sharks are big, stupid animals that will hurt and kill people.
How many Great White Sharks have won Nobel Prizes?
How many Great White Sharks have been noted for their charitable contributions?
No Sharks.....no problem.
I have a neighbor on Cape Cod who works for on the larger and more popular resort hotels. Her manager told her that they were averaging an occupancy rate of 30% for what should be their busiest season.
It certainly was not the weather in July.
WELLFLEET – Shark detection technology on Cape Cod made advancements off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet last week, ….such as an acoustic receiver attached to a buoy that can not only detect signals from tagged great white sharks but relay an instantaneous alert to lifeguards and beach administrators.
One such device was deployed off Newcomb Hollow recently and next week two more will be placed offshore at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro and at Nauset Beach in Orleans.
…………..Since 2009, a total of 171 sharks have been tagged with acoustic devices that broadcast a unique identifying signal that is picked up by a necklace of receivers attached to buoys off Cape beaches.
Only in this case, the data is forwarded as quickly as possible via a cellphone signal to whoever you want notified.” Water clarity and other factors affecting underwater sound transmission, such as wave noise and vessel traffic, may alter the distance at which the receivers can detect shark signals, but Skomal estimates a shark passing within 330 to 660 feet of the buoy would be picked up.