North Carolina May Ban Local Shark Fishing Due To Shark Attacks

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Altogether, six people over the past few weeks have been attacked by sharks off the North Carolina coast, including two this weekend.

Great White Shark
Great White Shark

While local officials are spinning their wheels to figure out why the numbers have been so high this summer, some experts think they may have it figured out.

The likely culprit: shark fishing, which is legal on the state’s beaches and piers, ABC News reports. The bait and chum used to lure sharks may be doing too good a job, attracting them perilously close to the shoreline and its swimmers. ABC points out that several of the recent attacks have occurred near fishing piers. “If we fed bears right in Yellowstone, people would be screaming,” the executive director of the Shark Research Institute tells ABC.

With this theory floated, some are now calling for a ban on shark fishing in parts of the state, even if just temporarily during summer’s busiest weekends. But at least one expert doesn’t agree with this hunch: The director of the NC Division of Marine Fisheries thinks the shark population has jumped due to laws banning commercial shark fishing, per ABC, which goes to prove the point that some people don’t belong in positions of trust and responsibility.

Whatever the reason, it hasn’t seemed to significantly affect beachgoers’ summer plans. “Everybody is out in the ocean, having a good time and playing on the beach,” a Surf City shop employee tells WFAL.

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8 years ago

There’s always some idiot wanting to kill the sharks, like this head of the NC Division of Marine Fisheries.

jess
8 years ago

guess that’s as good a reason as any, if it means these sharks can live in their own house their own way. Sad it took this for them to stop but I’m good with that.

Glenn Geist
8 years ago

What we’re afraid of and how much we are afraid of it is an interesting thing to study. Considering the numbers of people on the beach at this time of year it’s probably a slight risk. If the same number were killed in a movie theater, I’m sure the perceived risk would be higher.

Florida has been having a number of shark attacks at the beaches, but I think the risk of being hit by lightening is far, far higher. Of course there are those places where they feed the sharks by hand so that divers can get good pictures and swim with the sharks. Yikes!

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