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Seven Great Whites Spotted Today In Cape Cod Bay

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24 mins ago, Aaron Barmmer said:

There are orcas here during the winter.  A bunch of seals with huge bite marks where found through out winter on the outer cape beaches.  Fresh on the sand with blood everywhere in February.... unless the GWs are here all winter 

They should be able to tell by the bite marks if it was orcas or GWs. Anyone  hear anything?

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14 hours ago, Aaron Barmmer said:

There are orcas here during the winter.  A bunch of seals with huge bite marks where found through out winter on the outer cape beaches.  Fresh on the sand with blood everywhere in February.... unless the GWs are here all winter 

Oh ho.  THAT's what we need to see more of, seal-munching orcas.  (AFAIK GWs do not winter off Cape Cod, though this may indicate more of what we don't know than what sharks actually do.) How do we encourage them?  Viagra-laced herring? An annual "Welcome Orcas" parade? With a Miss Orca swimsuit competition, all contestants being required to sing whale-themed songs and limit themselves to black and white swimsuits? I don't think tax rebates would help, but ya never know. 

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15 hours ago, Matt A. Poisett said:

Brian, California has a long history of coastal sharks,,,,,what's happening here is very different and changing rapidly 

Yes and no.  This is a reversion to something like a colonial-era normal. 

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On 6/26/2019 at 0:07 PM, z-man said:

Agreed.  Nothing will ever be done to the seals. Animal rights activists would go crazy with any seal cull. Seals have more rights than humans on the beach. We can’t approach them, disturb them or even make eye contact with them. It will take large numbers of humans being killed by sharks before anything is even thought about being done to control the seal population. Telling people to stay out of the water will be the only solution for now. 

That last part is the most likely solution to the problem. And it won't be a suggestion, it will be a mandate. Don't think they'll ever be an open season on seals, nor GWS at this point. The environmentalists dream is coming true. Once they ban people from those beaches nature can return to its normal self (according to them). 

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10 mins ago, bradW said:

That last part is the most likely solution to the problem. And it won't be a suggestion, it will be a mandate. Don't think they'll ever be an open season on seals, nor GWS at this point. The environmentalists dream is coming true. Once they ban people from those beaches nature can return to its normal self (according to them). 

The crazy part is that humans are also part of nature. I’m sure that the Native Americans hunted seals and helped to keep their population under control. 

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Fatality within the last 48 hrs. by sharks in the Bahamas.......21 year old woman from California while snorkeling.  Thread currently in the Main Forum with details.    Sux!!!!! 

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On 6/26/2019 at 11:31 AM, flylikabird said:

The potential for a new problem in NJ might actually be a good thing for Massachusetts.  

How you ask?

Massachusetts has always been a copy cat state.   Once they see another state having success, they then copy said state.

I hope NJ has a seal and shark problem soon and then fix it!   :poopfan:

I also think if the seal population expands to NJ there will be reforms put in place sooner - hopefully up the entire coast. I read some research (can try to dig up the article for those interested) that said that there is some GWS spawning point off the coast of NY or NJ. If the density of seals increases there, I think it is possible for pissed off mother GWS to be hyper-aggressive and attack anything closely resembling food. Even the little ones will need to eat somehow. After pumping sand over jetty country and pouring money into tourism and beach appearance rather than ecosystem maintenance, I would imagine Jersey wouldn't take to shark attacks well. 

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