[Capt. Tom]

A little early in the season for Cape Cod white shark stuff, but it looks like this summer there is going to be action at sea and ashore here in Mass.

I personally know some of the individuals involved so I won't make any comments specifically on this article.

Just figured the article might be of some interest to Freepers who are interested in white sharks.-Tom

[BipolarBob]

Chief Brody had something to say about those sharks at Amity Island. Well, one shark in particular.

[blueunicorn6]

There is so much we can learn from sharks.

Their research on batteries is astonishing.

[SuperLuminal]

Just relocate them to the Rio Grande...

[Capt. Tom]

Just figured the article might be of some interest to Freepers who are interested in white sharks.-Tom

[longfellowsmuse]

I grew up on the cape... lived there until I was 19. Is it really true that it’s unsafe to swim in the ocean now? I learned to swim in the North Atlantic. Nobody was afraid of great white attacks in the 70’s and 80’s even after Jaws came out.

[miliantnutcase]

This story would make an entertaining shark week episode.

[Retrofitted]

Thanks, Tom! It’s an interesting article and I’m interested in GWs, but chumming near busy beaches and hooking I’m not so crazy about (seen some sharks tore up with that process). Tom, I’d like to hear your thoughts on this since you do know folks involved — call me lazy, but I like the benefit of other peoples’ knowledge. ;)

[rlmorel]

Thanks for posting it, and I won’t ask you to comment on it.

That said, God help me, I have nearly come to the knee-jerk conclusion that if the State of Massachusetts is against something, I have to be for it.

The Massachusetts state government is so Leftist, so corrupt, and so venal, that I find it hard to come across any policy of their opponents that I will not embrace.

Yes. To me, it is that bad.

[NetAddicted]

Increasing Great White shark population?.Time for a Jaws redo.

[Tallguy]

The state has said the chum used in state waters, which are closer to beaches, would be a public safety threat because it would lure sharks into the waters when they might otherwise not be so close. OCEARCH has said it will no longer use it and has otherwise defended its research methods as sound.
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That is an assumption. I’d like to see the statistics on that. White Sharks are hunting Harbor Seals in Massachusetts waters. They are there already.

Some pinhead bureaucrat is painting pictures of fantasy shark researchers chumming near a bathing beach to alarm the public.