Blue sharks matter!
Posted on 06/18/2020 12:39:40 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
My Dad operated a number of restaurants on Cape Cod including Chatham. I was commiserating with my sister last week about what a disaster this summer is going to be for the hospitality industry. No restaurants, no wave of college kids seeking summer jobs, no rentals for apartments and cottages, no tourists, not nothing. As successful as he was, this would have ended my Dad's 40 year run.
“but the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy began its summer research examining them Wednesday”
Bunch of rich gov workers getting paid six-figures to hang out at the beach and ruin everyone else’s summer.
Blue sharks matter!
This Massachusetts restaurant shutdown has been going on for so many months now it will kill many restaurants throughout the State
But Cape Cod restaurants have a shorter tourist season, and if the restaurant shutdowns continue it will be worse for them.
Also another shark attack on a person will just about do in any desire to enjoy the Cape waters. -tom
Thanks for the info. Did they estimate size at all? I was body surfing and swimming on Cape Cod just before Jaws hit the scene. Beautiful place, great food. Playing in the water is like hiking in grizzly country. This ain’t a zoo Alice. It’s Nature. Best way to have it. Running with the big dogs.
He was a very successful actor.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Interesting, Was born and raised in West Yarmouth. Lived on South Sea Avenue on the road to Sea Gull Beach.
Loved sailing as a kid on Lewis Bay. Went to Dennis Yarmouth Regional.
I just got off the phone with a friend who is a shark biologist and involved with these whites from day one.
He told me a few days ago a tuna spotter pilot sent him info and photos on a mako, est 800-1,000 lbs in Mass Bay.(that's on the Plymouth side.)
The next day the pilot sent him a photo of a single white shark in Mass. Bay ,half way between Green Hbr (Marshfield) and Provincetown.
The pilot and my friend, both estimated the white to be 14 feet long.
The 3 sharks DR. Greg Scomal tagged that day at Chatham were in the 10-12 foot size.- Tom
I’m no shark expert or anything of the sort but a mako 800 to 1000 lbs is huge to me. The things I’ve read all indicate to me Bull Sharks hit more people than most others. They are all meat eaters and we can be on the menu. I don’t care for antelope but that doesn’t mean I won’t eat one occasionally. Making a living studying what interests you has to be pretty nice. Animals do what they do. You just have to adjust accordingly.
One would think that many of the restaurants have outside seating and some ability to expand outdoors, that's what they are doing in Saratoga, free permits to do this until September as a nominal lifeline for hard hit restaurants.
Really, what was his name?
I do not recall seeing him in anything else.
Murry Hamilton. I forgot he placed the father in The Graduate
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