A shark expert explains
Photo: Karen Doody/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images If there is a creature of the moment in New York City right now, even more than the French bulldog, it’s the shark. In the past three weeks, there have been six shark attacks on Long Island, prompting extensive news coverage and stress for swimmers and surfers. On Monday, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she was directing state agencies to step up drone surveillance and lifeguard staffing at state beaches.
Shark populations around the world in general are on the decline. Yet New York is one of the busiest metropolitan areas in the world, and we have a booming shark population. That’s a good thing — people don’t want to hear that. But last year, there were just 73 unprovoked attacks worldwide. There are 4,000 drownings just in the U.S. every year, but people still go swimming. It’s scary, and nobody wants to be the 74th person on that list — I get that.
There is an effect with sharks and climate change, but it’s not a numbers thing. It doesn’t mean more sharks; it means different sharks. We’re seeing spinner sharks and blacktip sharks more frequently in our waters. And as the ocean warms, some of our local species aren’t happy, and they’re going to shift north.I purposely got rid of cable so I don’t have to watch the news.
If they wanted to eat us, they’d be attacking a lot more. Sharks aren’t mindless machines that eat people. The species I mentioned can’t eat you; they don’t have jaw structure or teeth for breaking bones.They are gonna find sharks. The beaches have closed a lot more, not because there’s more sharks but because we’re looking more. Two or three years ago, we weren’t patrolling; lifeguards weren’t looking. I guarantee beaches will be closed more frequently, and that’s going to persist all summer.
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