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Subject: Larger Makos being Caught?

Author:
Jim Morris

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Date Posted: 939376459PDT

Carol (mayo@midsoyh.net) wrote:

Hello everyone...

I was talking to a friend of mine on Friday and he raised a very important
point. Well he asked me a question that I could not answer at any rate.
He wondered what the significance of the large makos being caught off of
the coasts is. I told him I didn't know and would find out. Could
someone enlighten me please? Are there any theories out there as to what
is causing the increased catch of large Mako's?

Thanks so much

Carol

Carol wrote:

>Are there any theories out there as to what
>is causing the increased catch of large Mako's?

Larry (lbeerkir@hotmail.com) responds:

Carol:
Capt Tom had probably the most plausable explanation but I am not sure if
it was on this list, so I'll repeat the jist of his post: maybe the West
Coast fishermen are just getting better at fighting big fish, particularly
the critical role of the vessel's Captain during such a fight. I also could
speculate that more people out there are realizing what we on the East Coast
have known for years: the mako is spectacular big gamefish.
I hope Capt Tom will add a little more to list. And as a Rhode Islander,
I hope he hurls a few more "farmer" remarks in the direction of the
Californians!

Larry

Larry B. wrote:

> I hope Capt Tom will add a little more to list. And as a Rhode Islander,
> I hope he hurls a few more "farmer" remarks in the direction of the
> Californians!
>

Captain tom King (capt.tom@mediaone.net) writes:

I did post it to this list.Here is an excerpt as to why I think more big makos
are being caught in Calif.
-"-In California the fishermen are just getting better at battling big makos.
They have broken off plenty of big makos out there in the past. Not to long ago
Calif. mako fishermen were referred to as "farmers". They lost a lot of makos
sitting dead in the
water , instead of using a moving boat to battle a big mako. However the
Californians got a good teacher in Fred Archer who set up a fishing school in
Calif.and wrote books on mako shark fishing.
I agree with Fred on just about every point except letting makos swallow the
bait so you can rip up their intestines with the hook during the fight to take
the starch out of them.. I'm for the quick jaw hook set so if they get lose
they will survive.

Also there are ten times the number of boats offshore fishing now compared to
twenty years ago. And more of an interest in sharks, so the press covers the
catches, and you hear about sharks being caught.".
Capt. Tom's New England Shark Webpage @ http://people.ne.mediaone.net/capt.tom
Leave off the www.

Jim Morris responds:

How about the cooler waters of "La Nina" (down south) which might be
pushing the larger makos north in pursuit of (possible) relatively
warmer water and the baitfish in such?!

Keith Poe (sharktgr@gte.net) responds to Tom King:

forwarded:

La Nina is why there is bigger mako's being caught.
They are usually off shore farther where the sport fishermen can't
target them as easy.
Most of the tournaments have produced very few Mako's but they have been
Breeders.
The Angler that just landed the 1,109.43 lbs Female Mako wrote to me in
a E-mail that he has personally seen a 50 fold increase in the Mako
population. He also believes that Mako's eating Mako's is the greatest
problem concerning depletion. Go Figure. I have caught an T&R (tagged
and released) over
20 Breeders in the last year. I just received a collecting permit to
collect DNA samples for genetics studies. Well that's it for the sport
fishermen. I just had to reply to Captain Toms insulting guess as it
seems that tom believes that sport fishing is more important than the
resource.

Keith Poe
http://www.sharktagger.com

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