Despite all of the recent shark attacks in the U.S. I am very glad to see that everyone is not reacting in the wrong way and going out and hunting these fish down and slaughtering them...I was especially pleased to see the comments from some of the family members of the attacked. Some of them just admitted that it is a risk to swim in the water and you can not blame the sharks becasue they were feeding...Things like this.
During the last "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel, one episode talked about the impact commercial fishing has had on certain sharks food supplies. This has forced, ever so slowly, the sharks closer to the shoreline to hunt for their prey. Unfortunately this has caused the sharks feeding grounds to overlap with the swimming areas of most popular beaches on the Atlantic and Gulf shorelines. Most resort/vaction spots have combatted this with erecting shark and fish safe "shark nets" with a lot of success. These nets are designed so if a shark or large fish inadvertantly runs into one it will not get cought up and drown.
What do you folks think of this?
During the last "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel, one episode talked about the impact commercial fishing has had on certain sharks food supplies. This has forced, ever so slowly, the sharks closer to the shoreline to hunt for their prey. Unfortunately this has caused the sharks feeding grounds to overlap with the swimming areas of most popular beaches on the Atlantic and Gulf shorelines. Most resort/vaction spots have combatted this with erecting shark and fish safe "shark nets" with a lot of success. These nets are designed so if a shark or large fish inadvertantly runs into one it will not get cought up and drown.
What do you folks think of this?