Great Whites ''identify effective hunting grounds''

[GonnaCatchABig1]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

The scarier, the better.

I want people to be irrationally petrified. There is a minimal risk to even yakkers and surfers in our waters. But once there is even a close encounter, I know I'll be emailing every news agency, regulatory agency and anyone else that'll list about the correlation between seeing the sharks and the abundance of shark bait in our waters.

do you honestly think anybody having a knee jerk reaction to a shark attack will blame the seals? cause i don't. i just see a shark hunt in the making.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by GonnaCatchABig1

do you honestly think anybody having a knee jerk reaction to a shark attack will blame the seals? cause i don't. i just see a shark hunt in the making.

Nope. But I'm hoping intelligent people make the connection and use that knowledge to get the connection broadcast on the news.

Local Cape news will ignore the connection (or the story about sharks completely), due to the possible effect on tourism.

[Mr. Sandman]

No question in my mind whatsoever that they will come to feed on the seals and I think it will occur between monomoy and MV. They have already found some seals bit in half floating in the sounds. The little sand islands offshore are paved with seals..Some are PAVED solid at times. It's not one here one there, they are so thick in places that it looks like a pile of rocks. They don't leave anymore and are here year round.

There will be a real life "Jaws" situation and I think finally there will be some community pressure on environmental groups to take some action and allow fishermen to thin the heard and not the paying beach goers.

I think it happens soon...like in a few years and probably first strike on Nantucket or MV where there are a high population of summer bait...uh, I mean swimmers.

These protection groups are extremists in their own rights, they aim to protect every little thing at our expense and it is always mankind's fault for their demise. The other day I read the hold up on permits for building wind turbines and solar panels in the deserts of Nevada have been stalled...because these groups are protecting insects will be impacted out there. They gave Obama grief for swatting a fly the other day. This is ridiculous.

[MAKAI]

These protection groups are extremists in their own rights, they aim to protect every little thing at our expense and it is always mankind's fault for their demise. The other day I read the hold up on permits for building wind turbines and solar panels in the deserts of Nevada have been stalled...because these groups are protecting insects will be impacted out there. They gave Obama grief for swatting a fly the other day. This is ridiculous.[/QUOTE

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY 1% OF THE COUNTRY CAN DICTATE POLICY TO 99% OF US.