{"id":25905,"date":"2015-06-25T12:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25905"},"modified":"2015-06-25T12:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T16:48:17","slug":"buried-in-the-story-is-the-cause-for-the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25905","title":{"rendered":"Buried In The Story Is The Cause For The Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Channel 5<\/a> in Boston<\/a> posted an article today about the fact that the number of great white sharks off Massachusetts<\/a> shores is rising.<\/p>\n

The article states:<\/p>\n

The resurgence of the gray seal<\/a> population has driven the increase in white shark sightings here.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhite sharks<\/a> in excess of 9 to 10 to feet switch their diet to larger prey: seals, sea lions and scavenged whale carcasses,\u201d said Skomal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Marine Mammal Protection Act<\/a> passed by the U.S. and Canada<\/a> in 1972 helped bring back the gray seals, whose numbers in the Gulf of Maine<\/a> to Massachusetts are estimated at between 300,000 and 400,000, with a major nesting area for seal pups on Muskeget Island<\/a> between Nantucket<\/a> and Martha\u2019s Vineyard, said Skomal.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

About 2,000 pups were born on Muskeget in 2008, four times the rate in 1999.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\nLast September in Cape Cod<\/a> waters, Skomal\u2019s team filmed a white shark feeding on a freshly killed seal. The video shared Wednesday night depicted a bloody and violent scene.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The italics are mine. I don’t have anything against gray seals, I wish them well; however, when man decides to change the rules for one part of the animal population, he invariably impacts another part. Sharks have to eat, too.<\/p>\n

You can bet that some pseudo-scientist will come along very quickly and blame the increased number of sharks on global warming. That’s just the way things work these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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