Shark Tournaments

[Lat22]

I'm a fisherman and I'm against all "kill" tournaments.

 

[JohnnyM]

SN - No lectures, just don't want that kind of misinformation to be continually spread.

 

[Hornin Hong Kong]

over here they catch the shark cut their fin off like a buffalo tounge and then toss them overboard and they die

 

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[BrothaHorn]

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[jmrob93]

Just in from the galveston jetties-- the sharks are doing fine

Limites have dropped from 10 a day about 10 yrs ago to 5 then 2 and now one a day

the bays are a young shark's nursery until they head out to open water-- the bays are infested with the little ones right now-- I caught 9 and only kept a nice 3.5 footer-- nice fillets

They were hitting at corks, lures and anything that came by--including the couple of trout we caught--they were making passes at them to get a free meal

Wade fighermen are having problems with them eating all of the fish they catch off the stingers and gone to a new net like float to keep them out

I would like them to ease up limits to 2 in a few years--shark steak is great on the grill

 

[GT WT]

jmrob93,

Some sharks are doing fine. Sharpnose in the Gulf and blacktips in the bays have healthy populations. Small sharks like these benefit from reductions in population size of larger sharks. This is part of the ecological cahin reaction I mentioned in the OP - removal of large sharks such as tigers, dusky, hammerheads, and bulls removes predation pressure on smaller sharks and rays, the increased number of smaller sharks puts greater pressure on their prey base, and so-on down the line.

Increase the bag in sharpnose if you want, but tigers and the other big sharks ought to be off-limits. They have life histories - long-lived, late maturation, low fecundity - that suggest they can't tolerate any significant harvest.

 

[Uninformed]

I agree for the most part: I'm not a big fan of bull sharks, though. Great Whites are okay (although a previous co-worker's husband was bitten by one) because the water in the bay area is too cold for swimming anyway.

 

[jmrob93]

GT good points-- kind of like marlin--are they ever eaten? wouldn't it be easy to get a pic and dimensions alongsid ethe boat, release it and have a taxidermist create a resin replica ?

 

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[killerfrog17]

Wait, you think there's nothing unethical about hunting a species to extinction??

 

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