Would you eat yur pet fish?
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Most sharks are legal to fish or bowfish for on the coast of Northern California. We've shot sand sharks and leopard sharks near the shore but we use the chum out in the deeper ocean to attract blue sharks. Basically one gets a five gallon bucket full of frozen chum, ties some floats to, punches holes in the sides and tosses it overboard. Then drive your boat as far away as you can within sight of your chum bouy and set out another one. Drive again and drop another bouy to form a triangle. In the time it takes to get from bouy to bouy there should be new blue sharks coming up to investigate your chum.
To shoot the sharts we us compound bows, but rather than a stabalizer on the front of the bow, there is a little basket that a bleach bottle can slide into. The bleach bottle is filled with the kind of foam that one uses to seal cracks, the stuff that expands and then hardens. There should be enough room at the top of the bottle to fit a coil of strong string. The string is connected to the arrow which is also fitted with a razor sharp broadhead. Once the shark is shot it takes out line from the bottle and eventually pulls the bottle under water. The shark tows the bottle around until it gets tired, then the bottle will pop back up to the surface. If its a small shark one can pull the bottle and the string aboard and gaff the shark, pulling it into the boat. Blues are usually much bigger however and must be shot multiple times before they can be landed.
My dad has participated in tournaments off the coast of Eureka California. Prizes are awarded for most sharks, greatest total weight, biggest shark, and most species of shark. Stingrays and a large fish called a mola mola are also taken in this manner.
Great While sharks are an endangered species and may not be taken. Did you know that world wide about 6 people a year are killed by sharks? Well 10 times that many people are killed by falling coconuts! Coconuts just don't get the press that sharks do and they certainly wouldn't make for a very exciting movie.
To shoot the sharts we us compound bows, but rather than a stabalizer on the front of the bow, there is a little basket that a bleach bottle can slide into. The bleach bottle is filled with the kind of foam that one uses to seal cracks, the stuff that expands and then hardens. There should be enough room at the top of the bottle to fit a coil of strong string. The string is connected to the arrow which is also fitted with a razor sharp broadhead. Once the shark is shot it takes out line from the bottle and eventually pulls the bottle under water. The shark tows the bottle around until it gets tired, then the bottle will pop back up to the surface. If its a small shark one can pull the bottle and the string aboard and gaff the shark, pulling it into the boat. Blues are usually much bigger however and must be shot multiple times before they can be landed.
My dad has participated in tournaments off the coast of Eureka California. Prizes are awarded for most sharks, greatest total weight, biggest shark, and most species of shark. Stingrays and a large fish called a mola mola are also taken in this manner.
Great While sharks are an endangered species and may not be taken. Did you know that world wide about 6 people a year are killed by sharks? Well 10 times that many people are killed by falling coconuts! Coconuts just don't get the press that sharks do and they certainly wouldn't make for a very exciting movie.
Oh, I forgot before I was going to make a comment on shark fin soup. Apparently the trouble with shark fin soup is that some Japanese (and maybe other) fishermen catch sharks, cut their fins off and then through them back into the sea. Obviously they die and it seems a great waste. Fact of the mater is the fins demand a much higher price than all the rest of the shark so the fisherman just don't bother harvesting the meat and such.
I know what you mean Mike. Right now my major is Electrical/Electronic Engineering, but I'm seriously considering changing it to Fisheries or Environmental Resources Engineering. I've been spending way too much time studying and caring for fish and too little time concentrating on my C++ programing class.
im so happy this is my 1st post as a little fish on the messageboard.
hey gnome nice smilely face. i never look for them when posting so i dont know which ons are there. i like the drummer.
oh i got a real fact i found out at this site. www.myjokemail.com
Q:Why is the ocean so salty?
A: an average male whale releases 400 gallons of sperm when he ejaculates and only 40 of those gallons make it into the female. so that means 360 gallons of sperm from ONE male whale+ all the other male whales=salty water in ocean!!!!!!!!!!
~~Mike
hey gnome nice smilely face. i never look for them when posting so i dont know which ons are there. i like the drummer.
oh i got a real fact i found out at this site. www.myjokemail.com
Q:Why is the ocean so salty?
A: an average male whale releases 400 gallons of sperm when he ejaculates and only 40 of those gallons make it into the female. so that means 360 gallons of sperm from ONE male whale+ all the other male whales=salty water in ocean!!!!!!!!!!
~~Mike