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Sharks Still Spotted Off Cape Cod Into November, After Record Tagging Season
CBSN Boston ^ | November 8, 2019 | Sarah Wroblewski

Posted on 11/11/2019 12:37:34 PM PST by Capt. Tom

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The tagging is over for this year and no serious shark /persons incidents have happened.

A lot of people are not surfing and those who enter the ocean are staying in shallow water.

There is good film footage of the shark tagging at the URL. - Tom

1 posted on 11/11/2019 12:37:34 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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Still none here in Kentucky, but I’ll keep checking.


2 posted on 11/11/2019 12:44:33 PM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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So, there’s more sharks, but they are a kinder, gentler shark?


3 posted on 11/11/2019 12:45:10 PM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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In Kentucky you only have to worry about a proliferation of bears. -Tom


4 posted on 11/11/2019 12:49:23 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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My GUESS is that the Cape Cod area now has BOTH “year round resident” Great Whites AND “transitory” Great Whites, that come to New England waters at certain times to FEED on marine mammals & perhaps TO BIRTH PUPS somewhere nearby.

In my opinion, UNTIL/UNLESS the swimming beaches are “fenced off” to separate the swimmers from the sharks AND/OR limited hunting (”on license”) is allowed for Great Whites AND for seals, that the current dangerous situation for the swimmers/surfers is PERMANENT.

Further south, for example on The Outer Banks & other coastal areas of NC (where our family has an Atlantic shore beach-house), we only have “visiting” Great whites, I suspect because the water is too warm for the Whites much of the year.
(Also, there are FEW marine mammals on the southern Atlantic coast for the Whites to prey upon.)

Yours, TMN78247


5 posted on 11/11/2019 12:55:20 PM PST by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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There can only be one reason for this...

CLIMATE CHANGE!


6 posted on 11/11/2019 12:55:37 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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I watched a show where in California a killer whale killed a large grest white shark and ate its liver and every great white shark in that area swam far, far, away. If that was true, then they just need to take one great white, kill it, and then chum the water with its body and the problem is solved.


7 posted on 11/11/2019 1:01:12 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/


8 posted on 11/11/2019 1:02:13 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Stories like this they don’t say but they are saying OMG GLOBAL WARMING ,LOL


9 posted on 11/11/2019 1:06:31 PM PST by butlerweave
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Like GW’s conservatism :)


10 posted on 11/11/2019 1:07:34 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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September 25, 2019 - One of the biggest sharks ever caught in the north Atlantic was tagged by the nonprofit OCEARCH last week off Nova Scotia and is now being tracked by satellite.

The apex predator — named Unama’ki — was raised alive and kicking from the water on a platform and painstakingly measured at 15 feet and 5 inches long and 2,076 pounds.

11 posted on 11/11/2019 1:09:03 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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If sharks are congregating near Cape Cod it must mean that the cod stocks are returning.


12 posted on 11/11/2019 1:09:52 PM PST by allendale (.)
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Seal population expanding.


13 posted on 11/11/2019 1:14:41 PM PST by Reily
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True. Guess those “baby seals” are getting to be all growed up. If not men with clubs then great whites with huge teeth.


14 posted on 11/11/2019 1:20:00 PM PST by allendale (.)
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“In Kentucky you only have to worry about a proliferation of bears. -Tom”

I don’t suppose in Kentucky when a bear shows up at recreational playground, they tell everyone “well, you’re in his home don’tcha know...”


15 posted on 11/11/2019 1:23:43 PM PST by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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The sharks will leave if the food source is gone. There must be seals in the area for the sharks to eat. They probably don’t like the taste of rancid liberals which is probably the reason they didn’t eat any people this year.


16 posted on 11/11/2019 1:32:22 PM PST by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: wildcard_redneck
I watched a show where in California a killer whale killed a large grest white shark and ate its liver and every great white shark in that area swam far, far, away. If that was true, then they just need to take one great white, kill it, and then chum the water with its body and the problem is solved.

I would think it was the presence of the orcas. They should import few to the east coast :-)

17 posted on 11/11/2019 1:36:32 PM PST by NachOsten
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Time for a seal kill.

Man as a natural predator is gone and the numbers are growing.

18 posted on 11/11/2019 1:40:48 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Maybe they should play recordings of orcas by the beaches and see if the sharks vamoose.
19 posted on 11/11/2019 1:42:25 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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Maybe they should play recordings of orcas by the beaches and see if the sharks vamoose.

Get a boat named ORCA and go fishing for The Great White, like in the movies.

20 posted on 11/11/2019 1:44:43 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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