California's Monterey Bay Aquarium has gone over to the dark side of the Animal Uprising™ and is proceeding with its great white shark stocking program. They unleashed the latest monster from their secret program, with a distractionary announcement proclaiming they were doing a good thing.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium said in a statement that the shark measured 6 feet, 5 inches and weighed 171 pounds (77.5 kg) on its release, compared with 5 feet, 8 inches
and 103 pounds (46.7 kg) when it was captured in Southern California in Santa Monica Bay and put into the aquarium on August 31, 2006.
Since 2002 the aquarium has received 10 great white sharks, nine of them from commercial fishermen. Five died, two were released from a holding pen and one escaped from the pen.
The remaining two were put on display in the aquarium, which seeks to educate visitors on ocean resources, including the estimated loss of up to 100 million sharks killed annually for food or trophies or by accident by fishing gear.
The aquarium said in a statement it had implanted an electronic tag on the male shark released shortly after sunrise on Tuesday. The tag will track his movements and will come loose after 90 days, floating to surface where a satellite will be able to collect the tracking data.
Oh sure. They get little ones, feed them up and release big ones. Inquiring minds want to know what the aquarium is fattening them up on. Are they, by chance, running help wanted ads lately? What taste in foods have the great whites acquired since being fattened up? Swimmers, perhaps? As we all know from watching Jaws:
Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that's all.
Not unlike a growing boy on a growth spurt, come to think of it. Except the part about little sharks.
I think.
As long as they ain’t armed with frickin’ laser beams!