Posted on 08/24/2019 6:50:32 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
In February, the Ocearch team was denied a state permit to catch and tag great white sharks in state waters. In his letter denying the application, David Pierce, director of the state Division of Marine Fisheries, cited concerns with the team fishing for great whites in an area near public beaches.
Without that permit, Ocearch, which has a federal research permit to catch, tag and collect biological samples from white sharks, was anchored outside state waters, 4½ miles off Nantucket.
At the same time the bait on seven lines of Ocearch buoys and hooks was going untouched, beaches along the Outer Cape were being closed to swimming as white sharks hunted seals in shallow water close to shore. State researchers already have tagged more than 20 white sharks this summer in those waters.
With only one shark tagged in the first two weeks of a three-week stay, the Ocearch goal of adding 17 tagged sharks to bring the total number over 60, a number scientists thought would make research statistically significant, would likely have wait for another year.
(Excerpt) Read more at capecodtimes.com ...
Yes, I understand. Mountain Lions have become a big problem here in North Calif since hunting or shooting at them was outlawed.
What about?
Black Mamba
White tailed deer
White tipped reef shark
Red panda
White rino
Black rat snake
Red deer
Red winged black bird
Gives new meaning to jogging and mountain biking huh? Here in Idaho walking off a mountain covered with elk blood and a quarter of meat on the pack board is a new experience. Saving the animals at all costs, has its cost. Be safe.
“IMHO a disadvantage I believe they have, is they don’t use a spotter plane. -Tom”
The disadvantage they have is that they are not looking where the sharks are. If the sharks are feeding on seals, their natural food, and in the shallows where they have been for a few centuries, who would they think they can lure them out to feed on bait when the correct situation for them is in the shallows? They are happy where they are. You need to go there.
rwood
“What about?
Black Mamba
White tailed deer
White tipped reef shark
Red panda
White rino
Black rat snake
Red deer
Red winged black bird”
The apex predator in the world has been determined (by science) to be... Tuna.
Insight: More prey, more sharks. Thank the environmentalists for “saving” sea mammals so they can be eaten by ever increasing shark predation.
LOL!
He is a person with hands on experience but there are other factors involved in his decision to keep Ocearch out that I don' want to get into. - Tom
Off Nantuckett the state was afraid they might inadvertently catch a great Black Obama shark
I put a similar thought into an article that was published in many Mass. newspapers; here is an excerpt. (I preceded it with an account of 2 women in kayaks off Plymouth Mass in 2014 having a white chomp down on one of the kayaks and then swim off.
"Like that kayak, 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"
And what eats tuna?
...cats!
See, the internet wins again!
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