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How to solve the Cape Cod shark problem
Cape Cod Times ^ | Aug 20, 2019 | Craig A. Will

Posted on 08/21/2019 12:17:18 PM PDT by Capt. Tom

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To: Georgia Girl 2

Seems to me, nature runs in an ever changing balance. More seals=more sharks (Whites aren’t the only man eaters). Works for jackrabbit verses coyote populations, and expanding grizzly populations too. I’m sure if left to balance the shark seal ratio will settle down. What the folks in MA have to ask themselves is how much risk are they willing to take to not screw with Mother Nature. If you just gotta get in the water, congratulations, you may have saved one of those cute little seals. Recommendations, 1 don’t swim during your period, 2 don’t swim with a bleeding wound, 3 don’t swim near a fisherman, 4. Don’t swim flopping around like a seal. Oh, and good luck.


41 posted on 08/21/2019 1:35:02 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: Capt. Tom

Anyone else think Mrs Brodie wold have been fun to boink while the chief was out fishing


42 posted on 08/21/2019 1:35:44 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Clutch Martin
So, why are the great whites a problem off of Cape Cod? What is their food source?

The protected seals exploded to tens of thousands all along Cape Cod's ocean facing beaches
The protected white sharks feed on them. - Tom

43 posted on 08/21/2019 1:39:39 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: Capt. Tom
The protected seals exploded to tens of thousands all along Cape Cod's ocean facing beaches The protected white sharks feed on them. - Tom

It's the food pantry scenario, prepare 10 dinners and you'll get 10 hungry street people. Prepare 1,000 dinners and 1,000 will show up. If it wasn't for the abundant free food the sharks would go elsewhere.

44 posted on 08/21/2019 1:42:45 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Yashcheritsiy
Roy Scheider already showed us how to solve the Cape Cod shark problem.

It's so simple! Just find every shark, jam an oxygen tank in it's mouth, then blast it with an old M1. What could be easier?

45 posted on 08/21/2019 1:43:09 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Jmouse007
Hire Quint and KILL THEM!

As I recall, it worked out the other way around for Quint and the shark.

46 posted on 08/21/2019 1:45:09 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: al baby

The book had her and Hooper bumpin’ uglies.


47 posted on 08/21/2019 1:46:36 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Capt. Tom

Sharks just want to fill their bellies.

Put pizza delivery boats out on the water.

Get them used to the boats, and then start moving the boats towards Europe.


48 posted on 08/21/2019 1:47:31 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

How is clubbing baby seals different from killing a born alive baby after an abortion attempt?

We live in a society where
Politicians lecture us on Truth,
Homosexuals lecture us on morals,
Transsexuals lecture us on human biology,
Baby killers lecture us on the death penalty,
Tyrants lecture us on human rights,
Satanists lecture us on religion, and
Socialists lecture us on economics


49 posted on 08/21/2019 1:47:48 PM PDT by null and void (Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
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To: null and void

Because we can eat the meat and use the furs? I’m a hunter from way back and have no compunction whatsoever with popping a seal in season, especially to drive down the number of sharks.


50 posted on 08/21/2019 1:56:48 PM PDT by This_Dude
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To: 1Old Pro
If it wasn't for the abundant free food the sharks would go elsewhere.

The life span of each seal is 30 years.

- Tom

51 posted on 08/21/2019 2:13:23 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: This_Dude

Yeah, that, and one of those is legal, to great cheering and celebration when the governor signed the bill, and the other is apt to never be legal...


52 posted on 08/21/2019 2:25:56 PM PDT by null and void (Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
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To: Capt. Tom; All

The solution is putting up FENCES to separate the swimmers from the sharks.

That worked well in 1916 & it would work now. OR the Atlantic coast States can do NOTHING positive & lose both residents & $$$$$$$$$$.

Frankly, I think that it’s about time to allow “controlled hunting, on license” for both seals & White sharks, just as Southern States do for gators.

IF seal hunting was lawful again, I would buy another sealskin coat to replace the one that I lost to a truck burglar.

Yours, TMN78247


53 posted on 08/21/2019 3:06:06 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

I had shark fish & chips. It was good.

But then, beer battered shoe leather tastes just as good, so what do I know?


54 posted on 08/21/2019 3:06:33 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

If beer battered shoe leather tastes as good as shark meat, you gotta ease off the beer and increase the eggs in the batter. I have to ask, why did you cut up a leather shoe and eat it? Maybe someday I’ll post my barbecued carp on a cedar shingle recipe.


55 posted on 08/21/2019 3:33:00 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: Hatteras

Love it, outstanding film. Hire Quint and KILL THEM! This is THE SOLUTION to their problem, but they are too PC to do it. So they will be on welfare this winter and for years to come.

“YOU’RE THE MAYOR OF SHARK CITY!”


56 posted on 08/21/2019 3:41:34 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Equine1952

I’m not entirely certain beer battered buzzard barf would taste bad. It seems you can make anything distasteful or inedible into a delicious meal just by deep frying with beer batter coating.

Just my way of saying I have no clue what shark really tastes like since my beer-battered shark just tasted like every other good beer battered product. Yummy.


57 posted on 08/21/2019 3:46:02 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: Capt. Tom

Wait. They’re protecting sharks? Lolol!!


58 posted on 08/21/2019 3:46:13 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Roccus

oh yeah i read the book a few times


59 posted on 08/21/2019 4:32:49 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I see your point the right beer batter everything tastes like chicken. Astonishingly enough even chicken. Mmmm mm!


60 posted on 08/21/2019 4:34:17 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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