Tiger sharks have been on the south side of Cape Cod in the canyons about a 120 mile away for at least 20 or more years.
So if the water does warm up enough, they may well move northward. - Tom
Sharks are dangerous. But they have a right to live too. Gotta be careful in those waters, it would be a very unfair fight.
Is a bigger boat needed?
That. Looks. Like. One. Big. Ass. Tiger. Shark.
Good for him that they have a great "relationship", but...I think I would still stay in the boat. I guess I am old fashioned about these things...:)
I hope that they are vaxed, wearing masks and socially distancing.
Everything bad is due to climate change...or maybe due to me waking under a ladder the other day. Or maybe due to a black cat crossing my path. To see which requires falsifiable experiments...but being that none of these theories have anything to do with Empirical science we can just chose whatever we want without the need to verify its truth.
Has anyone else noticed they NEVER say what the temperature change has been and over what period of time? Why is that?
Kill some of the damn seals and sharks....and get this shark population in line with the human population. They don’t own the damn ocean.
Slow news day at the Boston Herald?
lmao.
Non-news.
I’m heading there for vacation this summer. Let’s just hope they find enough to keep them occupied at Martha’s Vineyard and Hyannis. I’ll be staying in Barnstable.
Now Tiger sharks are coming because of climate change. It would be hard to catalog all the things that are changing on account climate change… you know…excepting the climate…
Lion Sharks, and Bear Sharks as well, oh my
Tiger sharks are migrating farther north because of climate change, according to new research.
A new apex predator could be patrolling the Cape soon, as tiger sharks migrate farther north each year because of climate change and warmer oceans.
While waters off the Northeast have historically been too cold for tiger sharks, temps have warmed significantly in recent years
Hammerschlag and the research team discovered these climate-driven changes
During the last decade — when ocean temperatures were the warmest on record — for every one-degree Celsius increase in water temps above average, tiger shark migrations extended farther poleward by roughly 250 miles.
The scientists found that ocean warming has caused tiger sharks to shift their movements outside of areas that were previously protecting them from commercial fishing.
The climate-driven changes to tiger shark movements could disrupt natural predator-prey interactions, he added, which could “lead to ecological imbalances in the ocean.”
So, my question is simple: Do they have idea why the sharks are coming north? [/s]
Feed them the Massachusetts congressional delegation ... and in case that is not enough, add that of Connecticut and Rhode Island ... and Bernie as dessert.
Can you fish for them and eat them? Had shark years ago and it was okay.
This “climate change” thing works kind of like the Y2K warnings in which airliners would FALL from the sky and nuclear missiles would LAUNCH themselves. In other words, every change must be had from our perspective: fewer honeybees, but more gnats; fewer butterflies, but more Asian killer bees; fewer squirrels, but more rats. And so forth.
Remember Sharknado? It was meant to be a serious warning of the consequences of unchecked man made climate change. How climate change will trigger more frequent tornadoes, along with sharks reproducing at unprecedented rates, a “perfect storm” that will wreak havock on us. Instead it was seen as, at best mediocre comedic satire that ended up being an episode of MST3K.😃😃
“Tiger sharks are migrating farther north because of climate change, according to new research.”
Ocean currents constantly change...for millions of years.
How many apex predators can one environment have? Great white sharks are already there and IIRC tiger sharks make themselves scarce when great white sharks make an appearance. Besides, the apex predator in those waters is the orca. A single adult orca totally overmatches any shark, let alone the fact that orca travel in pods.
Worse, all the cosmologists, astronomers, astro physicists just discovered a blind spot in monitoring incoming asteroids. After all these years with their technology and white boards they couldn't figure out the Earth's rotation along with the matching trajectory of asteroids we may not see a hit coming?
I have lost faith in scientists. I firmly believe it's about their grants now adays. They create their hypothesis (theories) and the idiots in DC say on no, we're all gonna die. Here is more grant money.
I wonder what percentage of seals who die do so as a result of shark predation.