So Bobcat Brings Rain, Tornados, and Sharks North?????

[Ratickle]

Shark sighting shuts down Cape Cod beach as summer heats up
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News

Maybe this shark was just looking for some chums.

A Massachusetts beach was shut down for an hour over the weekend after the dorsal fin of a great white shark was reported off the Cape Cod shore -- an early reminder that the tourist haven is becoming a feeding ground for the sea's most fearsome predator.

A lifeguard on Nauset Beach spotted the shark’s tell-tale fin about 150 yards from shore on Sunday, said Harbormaster Dawson Farber of Orleans, Mass.

“The shape and color of the fin led him to believe that it was in fact a white shark,” Orleans Harbormaster Dawson Farber told local paper the Cape Cod Times.

The shark is thought to have been as much as 12 to 13 feet long, Farber told the paper, and looked to be headed toward Chatham, Mass.

Swimmers were allowed back into the water an hour after the sighting when no further sign of the shark was seen.

This is the first shark sighting of the year off Massachusetts, the Cape Cod Times reported, and follows last summer's shark activity there. In July, a man was bitten by a great white shark off Truro, marking the first confirmed shark attack on a human on Cape Cod since 1936.

Experts say federal protection has led to an explosion in the gray seal population has attracted the sharks.

Most beachgoers didn’t seem too concerned about the threat of a shark attack ruining their trip to the shore this summer.

“I’m anticipating that it will be a draw for people,” Farber told the Boston Globe. “We recognize the fact that there are sharks in the area, and we really feel the need to raise the education level of the people who come down here so they’re reminded that there is an inherent risk any time you go in the Atlantic Ocean.”

[Ratickle]

Did he also go to CA???

updated 6/5/2013 5:28:40 PM ET 2013-06-05T21:28:40
Print Font: +-HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — A huge mako shark caught off the coast of Southern California could set a record, but a critic said it should have been released because sharks are threatened worldwide.

Jason Johnston of Texas caught the 1,323-pound shark off Huntington Beach on Monday after a 2 1/2-hour battle, the Orange County Register (The Orange County Register ) reported.

"I've hunted lions and brown bears, but I've never experienced anything like this," Johnston told the newspaper. "It felt like I had a one-ton diesel truck at the end of the line, and it wasn't budging."

If the catch is confirmed and meets conditions, it would exceed the 1,221-pound record mako catch made in July 2001 off the coast of Chatham, Mass., said Jack Vitek, world records coordinator for the Florida-based International Game Fish Association.

It takes about two months for the association to verify domestic catches, he told the Los Angeles Times

The shark should have been released, argued David McGuire, director of the California-based protection advocacy group Shark Stewards.

"I'm a little shocked by it," he said of the catch.

"People should be viewing these sharks as wonderful animals that are important to the ocean and admiring how beautiful they are" rather than "spilling their blood and guts," McGuire told the Times.

Only 23 of the 6,850 world records on file with the game association involve fish topping 1,300 pounds, Vitek said. The largest catch was a 2,664-pound great white shark that was taken in 1959 off the Australian coast.

"Seeing a fish over 1,000 pounds — whether it's a shark, a tuna or a billfish — it's extremely rare," Vitek said.

The shark was being kept on ice and will be donated for research to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.


Big mako shark caught off Calif. could be record - US news - Environment | NBC News

[old377guy]

Yikes!

[Ratickle]

You look at the Mako pics on the jetski trailer?

[old377guy]

Yeah, scary looking

[Ratickle]

I see where a Great White was spotted off Jersey heading south. Guess it's following the Cat home?

[poncho]

I'm surprised we don't have great whites in BC waters. You'd think they would come up from California. Our waters are probably warmer then Massachusetts. We do have killer whales that are awesome sights in the wild/

[fund razor]

I see where a Great White was spotted off Jersey heading south.

It was fleeing the Stone Pony.

[Ratickle]

I'm surprised we don't have great whites in BC waters. You'd think they would come up from California. Our waters are probably warmer then Massachusetts. We do have killer whales that are awesome sights in the wild/

Love to watch the Orcas up in the straits and around the islands......