Posted on 06/07/2021 2:05:01 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
A few year later in 2009, they both started tagging white sharks off Chatham, MA, Cape Cod.
They got over whelmed with the Federally protected white sharks coming into the ocean side beaches of Cape Cod to eat some of the exploding Federally protected seal population. They ran out of tags and State money.
In 2013 the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy (AWSC) stepped in and paid for the tagging boat, spotter plane, tags, and hydrophone Buoys.
In 2021 there will be a Consortium of a dozen or so white shark organizations in the newly formed white shark Consortium ("Me Too" movement) to capitalize on the many white sharks now in the New England area. -Tom
“It’s not like goin down to the pond and Chasin’ Blue Gills or Tommy Cods”
I know all about sharks from watching the Sharknado movies.
“Ware says that she, too, had a misinformed view of sharks at one time because of growing up watching the film, but a cage-diving trip off of Seal Island in South Africa changed that. It was on that trip, “that I realized what I thought based on ‘Jaws’ was not accurate,””
Oh, that must be why you didn’t leave the metal cage you were in.
” It is often a headline when a shark eats a seal, but when you think about it, what you have is a predator, eating its prey, in its natural habitat.”
Other natural shark prey: Anything swimming in the water. Like, your kids, your wife, you. Thousands of sailors and airmen in WWII. Those poor oppressed sharks. Oh how would we survive if the great whites disappeared? It’s not like there aren’t a couple dozen other shark species who couldn’t fill the niche.
They really should make an effort to cull them around popular swimming areas.
They are obviously really bad.
I mean, “Great” White? Bad enough it’s white, but to call it great? None are great!
Those sharks need to check their whiteness.
It’s nothing but white privilege...great white shark privilege.
Jaws scared the beejebers out of me. To this day, I refuse to get in the ocean. My friends say I’m missing out. Me, I say fish pee and poop in that water so I’m just fine on the beach.
One thing "Jaws" did was ending the word used for centuries "Maneater" as the common word for Carcharodon carcharias. -Tom
Actually it’s never quite as simple as that. Especially when you look at the ripple affect when you remove an apex predator.
I wish someone would teach the Dims to quit fearing whites.
Visited the Farallon Islands a few years back hoping to see Great Whites. There weren’t any unfortunately. Maybe it was off season. The one other area on the Pacific side teeming with Great Whites is Guadalupe Island, Mexico. But it’s a little impractical to visit.
I’m originally from L.A. The west coast is relatively low on shark attacks. We seldom see big sharks in close to the shore. So we never worried much about swimming in the ocean. The main thing I hated about “Jaws” was the almost full decade of never ending TV specials on sharks. I don’t need or want to know anything more about them.
When I was on the gunboats in the Danang area we shot any sharks we saw near the surface. It never seemed to reduce the numbers. One thing to remember about sharks. There are plenty more no matter how many you kill off.
Well, coyotes replaced wolves up in the Rockies. The enviro-wackos’ claims that the lack of wolves threw the balance off was a bunch of hooey. Life is dynamic. Something else will fill the niche.
The marine mammal protection act in the 1970s caused the return of marine mammals and hence the Great White shark
staying out of their neighborhood to avoid injuries isn’t fear, it’s common sense...
Maybe like roaches. Where there is one there are plenty more.
They are fascinating creatures. End of the day though, in the water we are in their domain and I have no desire to be fish food.
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