Why Are Great White Sharks Swimming So Close to Boson Beaches? Are Environmental Activists Feeding Sharks? (Boson Phoenix) 27 Sept 2019

Why are great white sharks swimming so close to North Atlantic beaches?

More sharks are showing up near coastlines in the North Atlantic Ocean. Local cable access program "3600 Seconds" reports on what's bringing them there, on Sunday, 29 October 2019.  

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Just 20 years ago, great white shark sightings were so rare in the North Atlantic that they were declared "vulnerable" and given protected status by the U.S. government after a campaign of sit-ins and building occupations by animal rights activists. Now they are seen so often, and so close to shore, they are drawing a public outcry, particularly on Cape Cod, Massachusetts Bay, and Boson Harbor.   

Till Whitler reports on the great white controversy for the 2nd season premiere of "3600 Seconds" on Sunday, September 29 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT on Comcast Cable and online through a Youtube Live Stream.

During his cable TV tenure on ACTV then Channel Boson, Whitler became Boson's busiest independent animal rights videographer, demonstrating a Christ-like tolerance for on-air call-ins from pranksters yelling "Fuck you, fish face!" and forging an essential pipeline between eco-radicals and eco-militants. 

It's true there are many more great whites now say scientists at the University of Massachusetts, Boson,  who study them, and frankly are devoted advocates for what they call, "amazing creatures who are more humane than humans,"  because sharks kill and eat their victims instantly rather than slaughtering them and cooking them and only eating parts of them.  "Sharks don't herd animals or set up factories to systematically murder animals.  Sharks are impulsive eaters driven by innocent instinct, humans are devious killers who sometimes murder animals simply for fun when they hunt or fish for sport. No animal or fish should ever die a horrible death at the hands of a human, that is the very quintessence of being inhumane." 

Whitaker saw them not much more than 10 feet off Boson's North Wollaston beach with Dr. Treg Schlemeal, chief shark scientist for the Massachusetts Department of Marine Fisheries.

Nearby on the Boson claimed and Quincy occupied Half Moon Island were the reasons for the sharks coming so close to shore: hundreds of lounging, federally protected gray seals, the favorite meal of great whites. "This is the restaurant here. These sharks have found the restaurant, and they're waiting for the doors to open," quipped Dr. Schlemeal with apparently what passes for a witty metaphor at the second tier public college.

What's also true is that the chances of one attacking a human remain infinitesimal. Dr. Schlemeal has informally taken on the task of knocking on shark attack victims relatives doors to explain to them what happened when their loved one was eaten by a shark.  "I urge the mourning family to see the cycle of life and the contribution people make by dying and eliminating their carbon footprint."

Shark attacks are extremely rare, but last September 2018, Arthur Medici was killed by a great white while swimming off a Cape Cod beach. His was the first death by shark on the cape since 1936. It still set off a chain of fear reminiscent of that caused by the number-one film of 1975, "Jaws." It's a fear built into humans, says Dr. Schlemeal. "I think that fear is primal. It's innate ... it's in all of us." He added, "When you see those rows of 'pearly white teeth' chomping down on your thigh something inside you tells you 'this is not going to turn out right' before you go into shock."  Dr. Schlemeal earned a doctorate in Marine Biology writing pearls of wisdom like that.

"Oh the shark, babe, has such teeth dear, and he shows them pearly white" from The Three Penny Opera"  Sinatra Tribute to Sharks

Boson's Animal Rights Now! organization, which is sometimes loosely allied with the more militant Dirt First! ecologist, have seen themselves as the best defenders of "all living creatures" opposes all efforts to ward sharks off Boson's shores.

"Let's face it," Amy Loveless an Animal Rights Now! leader said as she stood on the deck of a boat that was dropping sheep carcasses into Boson Harbor to feed the sharks, "there are too many people on the planet Earth.  Every death of a human is a small victory for innocent animals and indeed for the entire planet Earth.  Stalin remarked that an individual death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.  Would the Earth care if a million wasteful humans were eaten by sharks?  The grey seals would approve if they could speak, so we must speak for them.  

When asked if they were killing sheep to feed the grey sharks, a visibly outraged Amy Loveless responded, "We buy sheep carcasses from a meat packing plant.  Some animals are too sick or perhaps have 'mad cow' disease and are not considered 'fit for human consuption' if one can imagine that.  We feed those to the grey sharks to draw them away from Half Moon Island, away from the harbor seals, and towards the overpopulated humans on North Wollaston Beach.  It's a win-win situation.  The grey sharks can eat the meat with no effects, apparently.  Who ever heard of a grey shark with 'mad cow' disease?" 


Chris Fischer, who founded Ocearch, an organization that monitors the oceans and tags and tracks white sharks, thinks educating the public is the key: "We've basically got to undo everything "Jaws" did. I mean, we've got half the people on the eastern seaboard terrified about something that almost never happens."

The "Deep Green" activist joins with those in the eco-radical movement in advocating a steep decline in the human population to save the earth.  "We can do this the easy way by having the most egrigious communities volunartily having fewer and fewer children, or we can do it the hard way with an evolutionary directorate that will suppress the growth of the human population by any means necessary.  The sharks can help us by weeding out the herd."

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