Shark Safety - Fishing
VIDEO: Shark Safety - Fishing
In Southern California, we have a growing white shark population and our coastal waters, particularly our beaches, are nursery habitat for juvenile white sharks.
Fishermen need to know:
- It's illegal to fish for white sharks.
- Don't fish for sharks during the day around piers or public beaches.
- Use monofilament line that will break if you hook something large like a juvenile white shark and always use corrodible hooks.
- If you hook a white shark, cut the line as close to the leader as possible – the hook will rot out.
- Don't chum off public piers and beaches – just a little bait goes a long way and will do the trick.
- White sharks are important to our coastal ocean and beach communities – they eat stingrays, seal and sea lions and we need them to keep our oceans healthy.