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GREAT WHITE SHARKS are likely to be rising in numbers off the coast of California and are not at risk of extinction despite some reports to the contrary, US researchers have confirmed.
The findings are good news for the ocean predator, suggesting that around 2,000 of them are swimming about in the Eastern North Pacific, not 219 as research released three years ago had indicated.
“If something is wrong with the largest, most powerful group in the sea, then something is wrong with the sea, so it’s a relief to find they’re in good shape,” said George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research.
“That we found these sharks are doing OK, better than OK, is a real positive in light of the fact that other shark populations are not necessarily doing as well,” said Burgess, a co-founder of the Shark Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
The study appears in the journal PLOS ONE.
The earlier count was based on research at two sites — the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco, and nearby Tomales Point — where seals congregate and so do the sharks that eat them.
By accounting for all life stages of sharks there, researchers found that their numbers were more likely around 2,000, not 200.
Since sharks are difficult to count, and populations were so fluid at those two sites, researchers also widened their research scope to include other known gathering spots from Mexico into British Columbia and Alaska.
The US National Marine Fisheries Service has declined petitions to add white sharks to the endangered species list, estimating the Eastern North Pacific population at about 3,000 sharks.
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Talk about takes one to know one!
@Marty Gormley: I can just picture his rage while trying to use twitter on his phone this morning.
@Johnny Bellew: and his little fat fingers trying to type!!! Roflmao!
@Terri McCormick O’Gorman: ….while sitting on the toilet
@Marty Gormley: trump is one deranged man. God help humanity.
@Ger Murphy: if I was Comey, I’d use it as a review on my book cover.
@Marty Gormley: If Trump thinks the head of the FBI was a untruthful slime ball he has merely confirmed what Russia is saying about western intelligence agencies.
Reminds me of Biff ….from the future
@Alan Pike: on the nail! Perfect.
@Alan Pike: McFlyyyyy!
@Alan Pike: It’s funny because its true. Now go get your coat. YOU’RE FIRED.
@Alan Pike: Who was literally based on Trump
@Alan Pike: make like a tree and get out of here
@Guy Incognito: shh, don’t spoil the fun with a well known piece of movie trivia…
Love it when Trump calls someone else a slime ball…
@SL Photography: Does he call you that a lot? At least it’s someone else this time..
@John Free Shanti: hahahahaha. Hahahahaha……hah
When Trump revenged himself on Comey, by ignominiously firing him, he may have overlooked the Confucian wisdom, that a person who seeks revenge against another should first build 2 coffins.
@Michael Lang: deep state pulling out all stops to pressurise the orange one to go to war… lefts blind hatred of trump plays into their hands & hastens the Armageddon… crazy ironic situation…
@Chris Leitrim: they just don’t make Armageddon like they used to and that is good.
The US is a paper tiger.
@Michael Lang: Armageddon outta here, I can tell ya!
Trump seems to think if he says something it is true. When proven wrong he just repeats it anyway and many of his followers still believe him. It is the strangest human trait to blindly stick by somebody and always defend them no matter what they do. I will always call out any liar regardless.
@Kal Ipers:
I think the point is that the people who voted for him are those who see themselves (or at least what they would like to be) in him.
It’s a damning indictment on the political system when people simply don’t care about the truth.
Trump is a joke until he’s threatening missile strikes. Shrewd, intelligent, amoral and a proven liar. A bully and a coward. The America that hides behind values and family. All bullshit.
@Kal Ipers: Take a read of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder page on Wikipedia, and keep him in mind – it’s very scary…
@Kal Ipers: ah, you’ll never make it in politics doing that. Dont you know, if you repeat a lie often enough, it will become the truth…….
@Type17: Yikes, that is a scarily perfect fit!
A proven leaker? The snowflake in chief needs to have a bit of self awareness!
Would Trump be able to negotiate sanctuary in Russia?
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
@Michael Lang: With two scoops of ice cream.
I love the way everyone that has any criticism of trump is a liar that dose a terrible job and everyone agrees they should be fired.
@Thomas Maher: keep taking your medication …
As Trump might say in his Julius Caesar person
“Infamy, infamy, they all have it in for me.”
Trump should be singing
“ I hear the train a Comey. It’s Comey round the bend” . Bang. Executive privilege invoked.
Trump has accused Comey of lying under oath. At least Comey went under oath and told his side. Trump can do the same, but even a dope like him should know that not even the president can lie under oath and get away with it. Ask Nixon.
Trump’s urine-blond comb-over colour may be explained as ‘all organic’ in the near future.
@alphanautica: skid mark. In cattle farming it is called “scour”.
I’m confused, is this story about Russian hookers taking a leak or some other sort of leaker? Or is it leek? Something to do with Wales?
Leek over there? I’m starting a war?
Meanwhile, in other news today, Trump pardons Scooter Libby … indicted in 2005 on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements to investigators – largely for denying his contacts with the media when caught up in the investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame…
I would like to see an octagon MMA cage.
Trump and Putin enter the cage.
The crown roar
“ Two go in; one come out”.
The shoot the winner.
With apologies to Mad Max.
@Michael Lang: /Frankie goes to Hollywood, but Putins says you owe me $800m
The best analysis of Trump Inhave heard is from a journalist and commentator, David Frum.
Comey should have arrested Trump for assaulting earlier before he sacks him
What a low life this trump is.
Please somebody impeach him soon.
He’s making me feel sick now.
He’s ruining America.
@Gerry Fallon: America is already been ruined thanks to Reagan and Bush and W Bush
Trump is a nutter! And he got his finger on the red button! !!!!
Comey is the Bizzaro Trump…That’s why Trump hates him.
@beckman3: And he is taller.
Leaker???
I think the real slimeball is the writer of the tweets. hopefully soon to be Leroys cellmate.
America is bonkers
I bet you a Pound that Pence will be the President within a year.
Stay classy Donald, busily making America look stupid.
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