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
Still none here in Kentucky, but I’ll keep checking.
So, there’s more sharks, but they are a kinder, gentler shark?
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
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.
If sharks are congregating near Cape Cod it must mean that the cod stocks are returning.
Man as a natural predator is gone and the numbers are growing.
Shark tagging today. People tagging tomorrow.
They just love that global warming off the coast of Cape Cod this time of year.
BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — Researchers have fitted 50 great white sharks found in Cape Cod waters this season with tracking and data-logging devices to study how the species kills seals to benefit public safety.
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy uses two tags to study behavior — a standard acoustic tag to identify the shark and an accelerometer that records body position, speed and acceleration.
Researchers say the data is used to determine when the animal is resting, chasing prey, feeding and how much energy it is using.
State shark researcher Gregory Skomal said that the primary focus is where and how white sharks kill seals,” which will be used to determine when and where sharks are more likely to be present.
That was a good sized shark, too...10-15 feet maybe?
I admire them, but...I don’t want to be around them in the water.