Many people who recreate in the ocean in Mass. have either given up , or become more conservative in their behavior.
I see an uptick in paddle boards and Kayaks. Easy target for a white if it is interested.
This Federally protected seal/white shark problem is presently unsolvable.
Seals live for 35 years and white sharks for 60-70 years.
No shortage of either in Mass. waters. -Tom
Your tax dollars at work, when will people realize that their sky high taxes are due to this kind of elitism?
there is an essence of dead shark that can be put into the waters and sharks will scatter for a long time- I mean scatter- way down to equator type of scattering- for some reason the sharks are terrified of dead shark scent
But there were also 31 great whites off Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown last year and the Rock Harbor buoy in Orleans adjacent to popular Skaket Beach recorded over 1,300 hits from 17 white sharks. And those are only the sharks that have been tagged.
As you well know, we have a protected species as a food source. A very abundant food source. It’s time to introduce the public to seal meat.
45 year old native codder here. Nice to meet you.
How come there is no Great Black Shark?
I think that’s raciss.
The key to this is changing the behavior of people. They have to recognize that there’s a peak season when these animals are here.
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The peak season being when the juicy tourists are in the water.
There is just so much we can learn from Sharks.
They never run out of ICU beds.
MA has a 14 day self-quarantine requirement for tourists.
Sharks are the least of the Cape’s problems.
Great White..
That’s racist, or something!
Privileged sharks.
Yep - the threat remains constant - they have teeth....