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Re: NC shark attacks??

Postby flyingcamel » Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:57 am

i've heard that the shark attacks were increasing because commercial fishing is depleting their food supply making more of them come closer to shore.

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Re: NC shark attacks??

Postby L0KI » Sat Jul 04, 2015 3:18 pm

Over fishing is decreasing shark population as well.
The reported statistics are that humans kill around 100 million sharks a year, 73 million alone for finning, and the number may be as high a 200 million.
Over fishing is real problem, but I'm not sure it is why we are seeing more shark attacks.
We just have a greater number of people playing in the oceans, so more accidents will occur.

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Re: NC shark attacks??

Postby davesails7 » Sat Jul 04, 2015 10:28 pm

flyingcamel wrote:i've heard that the shark attacks were increasing because commercial fishing is depleting their food supply making more of them come closer to shore.
After hitting a bunch of cownose rays with my foil, I found out the ray population is exploding due to the sharks that eat them being overfished. Now because there are less sharks to eat them, the large population of cownose rays are eating all of the oysters.

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Re: NC shark attacks??

Postby SimonP » Sat Jul 04, 2015 10:59 pm

It depends upon your fin setup apparently.

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Re: NC shark attacks??

Postby vkngktr » Sun Jul 05, 2015 3:52 am

Again. No shark attacks again today on Hatteras. Happy 4th.

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Re: NC shark attacks??

Postby FLandOBX » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:22 pm

davesails7 wrote:Now because there are less sharks to eat them, the large population of cownose rays are eating all of the oysters.
.......and this just in....because there are less sharks to eat the tourists and fewer people are getting sick from eating raw oysters, traffic on Hwy. 12 is exploding.......it's the ecosystem at work. :-?

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Re: NC shark attacks??

Postby oceansprince » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:59 pm

Big respect to all of you that still kiting in shark's attack areas.. In my place i dont worry at all when i kiting.. Otherwise maybe i stop.


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