Some business owners and politicians in the Northeast, worried that more shark sightings and beach closures could lead to a downturn in tourism, want the seal population culled, but not everyone thinks that’s the answer.
Two weeks ago Maine recorded its first fatal great white shark attack. Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, of New York City, was splashing with her daughter approximately 20 yards off the coast of Bailey Island when a large shark, likely mistaking Holowach for a seal, struck her with such force that she was launched out of the water, witnesses said. She died at the scene.
Greg Skomal, an internationally known shark expert and the program manager and senior scientist for Massachusetts’s Division of Marine Fisheries, began experimenting last month with sonar detection technology that he believes could become a useful early warning system for coastal swimmers. “There’s no silver bullet, no one solution that’s going to be 100 percent effective,” Skomal said in an interview with Yahoo News. “The only thing that’s going to be 100 percent effective is people don’t go in the water.”
“There weren’t sharks hunting close to shore [until recently] because the seals weren’t there, not in large numbers, so if you want to go back to that stage in time, think of the number of animals you’d have to remove,” Skomal said. “You’d be killing animals for the sake of killing them. Where would the bodies go? Who would do the killing?”
“As human beings we have to understand that we don’t belong in the water,” Sulikowski said. “We go there to enjoy it. So, if we start thinking of removing and changing ecosystems so that it fits our pleasure zones, then we really have some issues as a race.”
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