Below is from the linked article. -Tom
This year, researchers also saw more shark activity in the early part of the season than has been witnessed in previous years.
“Most of the time things don’t begin happening in terms of numbers of white sharks really until mid-to-late July, and we had a lot of white sharks around in early July this year,” Skomal said. “So that gave us a couple to three weeks more of tagging as well. So that’s clearly the case where we had far more sharks, in our opinion, around in July than we had in previous years.”
Things slowed down near the end of July, but Skomal and Winton agreed that the activity appears to be picking back up again
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Here’s a site you might enjoy exploring
Mostly boats from NY and NJ but there is a section for “Distant Waters” also.
Some good old photos of Sheepshead Bay before the dinner-boat craze and Koch and his buddies started pushing the fishing boats out. Sadly the politicians were trying to do the same to Captree when I left NY.
http://www.mels-place.com/mmm/index.html