toneart
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Shark attacks in Mexico
Not Baja, but the story is about Mexico's mainland Pacific Coast.
This was off the Reuters News Service via Yahoo.com news:
Tue Jun 3, 6:27 PM ET
Biologists in Mexico plan to tag hundreds of sharks off the Pacific Coast to help understand the cause of a rare spate of deadly attacks on humans,
the local government said on Tuesday.
Sharks near the southwestern resort of Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo killed two surfers and maimed another in the past few weeks, the first fatal shark attacks
along Mexico's Pacific coast in 30 years, according to official records.
Biologists plan to tag sharks and ask fisherman to look out for them and report back on their movements, Guerrero state Environment Secretary Sabas
Arturo de la Rosa told Reuters.
A smaller group of sharks will be tagged with electronic devices that would transmit data on their behavior and locations to biologists via radio
frequencies, he said.
The tagging is expected to begin in about two months and the study should last a year.
"We need to get to the 'why' these animals are coming so close to Guerrero's shores, which is so unusual," De la Rosa said.
Shark experts believe unusually cool sea-surface temperatures could be partly responsible for the attacks, but they also note that a dearth of data
about sharks in the region makes it difficult to reach conclusions.
The researchers plan to use a special baited fishing line to catch sharks in the area and then tag and release them, said Jose Leonardo Castillo, a
shark expert with the National Fishing Institute who is involved with the project.
Fishermen who come across tagged sharks will be compensated for reporting their location, Castillo said.
More expensive telemetric tags on a smaller number of sharks will emit radio frequencies that scientists can track.
Surfer Bruce Grimes from Texas recently became the third person to be bitten by a shark since late April. Grimes survived the attack but needed 100
stitches in his arm.
(Reporting by Mariano Castillo; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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Good grief!!!!! 3 attacks in as many weeks---------THAT IS A PROBLEM, and a trajedy.
Thanks for the heads-up, Tony.
barry
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I wonder if the sharks have figured out that we are their mortal enemy ? Is there irony here ? The shark population is being decimated .....
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My surfer friend just got back from that area this week.
He said that the locals had a theory about it, which is that the sharks have gotten a taste and used to humans. This is because the sharks are eating
dead people (from cartels and what not) dumped in the ocean or washed out from arroyos during storms. 
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ILikeMex
My surfer friend just got back from that area this week.
He said that the locals had a theory about it, which is that the sharks have gotten a taste and used to humans. This is because the sharks are eating
dead people (from cartels and what not) dumped in the ocean or washed out from arroyos during storms. |
Once they've tasted Man blood there is no going back ....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ILikeMex
My surfer friend just got back from that area this week.
He said that the locals had a theory about it, which is that the sharks have gotten a taste and used to humans. This is because the sharks are eating
dead people (from cartels and what not) dumped in the ocean or washed out from arroyos during storms. |
That's knarly duuuuuude!
  
Ken
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Nice try
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another reason to stay outta mexico/baja......
we'll be doing some research/recon next friday.
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