It's true:

We don't really make it our business to spend our time reading the fluff pages of secondary market newspapers but our internet news searching of the keyword "Shark" keeps on pulling up the Orlando Sentinel. Wow! What a piece of shit it is? This crappy editorial comes on the heels of the artfully published Brenda Quiles letter.

This new insult to reason was squirted out by "outdoors writer" Mike Thomas and is entitled "Why shark attacks are increasing?"

Because there are more sharks!

According to what scientific data, genius?

Of course this is not the politically correct answer, which is that there are more people in the water.

"Politically correct" read: elitist intellectual.

But in fact, there are more sharks, a lot more blacktip sharks to be specific, which are responsible for most of the nip-and-run Volusia attacks. Commerical [sic] fishing for these sharks was banned in Florida waters in 1993 to increase their numbers. The ban worked.

Really? Most of the attacks in recent years have been from Spinner Sharks. Blacktips and Spinners are similar, but they are not the same. I could give the Latin binomials but that would be too "correct." And where is your data that says there are so many more Sharks today than there were before 1993?

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