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alakaboo wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:30 pm

The contracts for drum lines and net operators require them to be cleared every 48 hours at least so it's not all that likely sharks see their captured friends.

The smell of death lingers. Sharks enter those locations into their shark sat navs and avoid them.

Glad you cleared that up Pinhead. Who knows what other anthropomorphic nonsense we would have to consider. It’s so obvious they have sat nav. Cnuts.

Cranked wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 01, 2019 8:32 pm

alakaboo wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:30 pm

The contracts for drum lines and net operators require them to be cleared every 48 hours at least so it's not all that likely sharks see their captured friends.

Do you have any theories about how or why they seem to work?

I don't think there's enough evidence yet to say that they do work, tbh.i couldn't find any decent papers in a brief search.

I think it may affect their feeding behaviour (or avoiding suspended baits), so they're less likely to be recaptured, but not necessarily their site fidelity.
Maybe they weren't going to stick around anyway.

We didn't really have the data for the recapture rates in nets and 'dumb' drumlines, so maybe there's just a whole lot more sharks than we first thought.

Thanks boo.

Time for a graph!

Yikes, so Winter is when they turn up. The one at Tuncurry just hangs there all year.

When do the whales migrate?

June to November (broadly speaking).
Some were spotted this year at Port Mac as early as April

Hasnt been an attack Byron way for a while. Touch wood.

Time for a table!

Poor old Grey Nurses, eh. Ben Cropp blew them out of the water in the sixties with his power head spearguns.

Beanpole wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2020 11:43 am

Poor old Grey Nurses, eh. Ben Cropp blew them out of the water in the sixties with his power head spearguns.

True.
But boy he had some nice wives.

Cudgen Reef featured prominently in his testing of the Powerhead.

I still reckon we should just bang stick the lot of the cnuts

The Mighty Sunbird wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 8:24 pm

I still reckon we should just bang stick the lot of the cnuts

Your consistency on this issue is better than science Lats.

Grey Nurses....the Labradors of the sea.

My mate who lives in Torquay said an attack at Bells yesterday.

ITS BANG STICK TIME