"Amity, as you know, means friendship. So make friends with a shark."A quarter century after writing what Beaty, 56, described as “graphic letters” threatening to kill the President George H.W. Bush, Senator Edward Kennedy and Massachusetts State Senator Lois Pines, Cape Cod voters in 2016 elected Beaty, a fiscal conservative, staunch Donald Trump supporter, and outspoken critic of government as one of three county commissioners.
Tom here- I added in the biography of the letter writer, since a persons background can totally cloud what they are saying.
I agree with MR. Beaty on the cause of the seal and shark problem .(the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act)
IMHO the seal problem is unsolvable at this time. -Tom
We can learn so much from Sharks.
They’re developing driverless cars.
Excellent Post, Captain.
Here’s an excellent film on the subject, free. My kids love it.
https://video.kpbs.org/video/great-white-shark-new-perspectives-of-an-ancient-predator-zidgxv/
"Amity, as you know, means friendship. So make friends with a shark."Alewives Matter
A good low-tide strafing run from Monomoy up North Beach to Nauset would do the trick. Tide comes in and takes away the...remains. sharks & everything else get a nice buffet for a couple of days and then things might calm down.
Sigh. You would think they would have learned that any time humans get in the position of trying to protect something, they are just as likely to make it worse than improve it.
I recognize there are times and places for government involvement, but I have alway felt the lightest touches were the best...if at all.
Most of the time, it is a heavy handed bureaucratic cudgel that is full of things that don’t drive the desired effect and worse, are infested with unforeseen circumstances and results.
It happens so often that you wonder how someone would have the courage to pull the trigger on an environmental management scheme when all those failed and stupid ones from the past stare them in the face.
But pull they trigger they do. Every time, like clockwork. “It will work this time...”
Perhaps more LGBTQI in Provincetown and Cape Cod will help? The Shark gods will be pleased with the reverent political correctness and simply quit biting people!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ytTKZf344
Increase the Orca population - that’ll help with some of the seal problem.......now, what eats Orcas......gotta think of the next phase....
Forget the seals and deal with the politicians and bureaucrats.
Tom,
Now that there are so many sharks and many are tagged, are there any Captains taking people out to see sharks?
Instead of taking people out to fish for stripers or blues maybe there is money to be made if you can get people up close to a Great White Shark. Similar to what they do down in Cape Town, SA.
Put people in a cage and feed the sharks.
Drag a seal shaped rubber decoy behind the boat and get the sharks to come up for a bite. Just like on shark week.