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Growing concerns over great white shark boom off Cape Cod
ABC News ^ | June 28, 2017 | Kelly McCarthy

Posted on 06/29/2017 5:31:34 AM PDT by C19fan

An influx of great white shark sightings has residents and tourists worried about potential encounters in the water, especially during the heart of summer.

Senior Fisheries Biologist Dr. Greg Skomal told ABC News the increase in the great white shark population off the Massachusetts coastline is correlated to the gray seal population and that numbers are expected to rise even further.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: sharks
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Stealing from the Instapundit: "Jaws" was a warning not a guidebook.
1 posted on 06/29/2017 5:31:34 AM PDT by C19fan
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My bet? They’ll need a bigger boat.


2 posted on 06/29/2017 5:33:33 AM PDT by wbill
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I believe the shark in the original Jaws movie did go boom.


3 posted on 06/29/2017 5:35:05 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Great Whites?

Filthy, racist shark-namers.


4 posted on 06/29/2017 5:38:26 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Send in the Orcas
5 posted on 06/29/2017 5:38:35 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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Global warming in... 3, 2, 1


6 posted on 06/29/2017 5:39:07 AM PDT by DanielRedfoot (CNN is fake journalist, creating fake news and fake polls for fake intellectuals)
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I hope they eat a Kennedy.


7 posted on 06/29/2017 5:39:44 AM PDT by mindburglar (I'm sorry, can you spell that?)
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Perhaps some enterprising biologist can figure out some sort of oscillating pattern between Predators and Prey and how a rise in one causes a rise in the other, and the decline in one causes a decline in the other. Could be a ground-breaking study.


8 posted on 06/29/2017 5:39:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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Call it the “Great Black Shark” and it will become the official national animal.


9 posted on 06/29/2017 5:43:11 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Le Pen: "Islamism is a totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on civilization.")
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One headline touted "July 4th Feeding Frenzy!".

Since it's only libs who will get munched alive, it's time to grab some popcorn, and pull up a chair. This should be fun!

10 posted on 06/29/2017 5:53:04 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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They eat seals, seals have made a come back in the NE coast. Its the seals. Get rid of them and the sharks will go away too.


11 posted on 06/29/2017 5:56:49 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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Easy to diffuse the situation. We just need some academic types to tell the great whites to check their privilege.


12 posted on 06/29/2017 5:58:22 AM PDT by I-ambush (If we make it, we'll all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying)
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They eat seals,

A person laying on a surfboard with their arms and legs hanging over the sides is an excellent topwater lure. Looks just like a seal from below.


13 posted on 06/29/2017 6:00:44 AM PDT by BobinIL
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Voting is closed. You win the internet today.


14 posted on 06/29/2017 6:01:43 AM PDT by Clay Moore (Sorry tagline out of service due to Russian hacking)
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To: C19fan

15 posted on 06/29/2017 6:10:05 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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CA has a large population surfers and seals both, it happens to be the highest probability area in the US for GW shark attacks. FL has no seals that I know of and has the next highest rate of shark bite victims, but not mainly from GWs.

Yes, surfers look enough like seals to induce sharks to try a bite- usually they let up after discovering the object of their interest has no seal blubber and tastes like fiberglass and foam....


16 posted on 06/29/2017 6:11:06 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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What do you call it when Great White sharks begin eating liberals off of Cape Cod...


17 posted on 06/29/2017 6:12:56 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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Liberals taste like chicken. Sooner or later, the sharks were gonna find out ....


18 posted on 06/29/2017 6:14:20 AM PDT by sphinx
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When are the Obamas visiting the Cape?


19 posted on 06/29/2017 6:15:05 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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What do you call it when Great White sharks begin eating liberals off of Cape Cod...

Dinner is served!

20 posted on 06/29/2017 6:16:16 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (We are the unOrganised Militia. We are "We The People"! BLOAT.)
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