You probably have been hit up by the taxman whereas fishing the waters round Florida just lately, you aren’t alone, nor had been the chances in your favor. A brand new study published within the Worldwide Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Journal of Marine Science has proven that almost half of anglers fishing in Florida have handled shark depredation. Confirming what Constitution Captains and Saltwater anglers have been saying for years: they’re getting sharked greater than ever. This citizen-science-based undertaking used social media content material evaluation, on-line angler surveys, and cooperative fishery-dependent charters to construct an in-depth information base of how sharks affected the Florida fishery. On common, 43% of anglers skilled some shark depredation. The chance of getting sharked ranges from 10% to 60%, relying on the realm and season. The examine additionally discovered that bull sharks had been probably the most prevalent species for depredation incidents, with 38.5% involving them, and that snappers and groupers had been the most typical targets of sharks and different predators.
“A typical day of offshore fishing on our reefs we will run via 5- 10 weights and or 10 to 30 hooks. It’s not unusual to have teams of sharks observe our fish as much as the boat 3-4 in a pack chasing one fish. Typically instances each fish that we flip off the underside on a reef/wreck will get sharked. The one solution to keep away from it’s to depart and check out one other. Final 12 months we even had sharks attacking our fish launched through descending units on their method again to the underside” – Florida Captain Logan Dezan of Top to Bottom Fishing Company
Hopefully, with new info like this and extra laws just like the current SHARKED Act, science-based methods to take care of the uptick in shark depredation could be fashioned whereas nonetheless maintaining a stability between conservation and leisure fishing pursuits.
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