Concerning the sharks in the area
New Jersey Courier 14 Jul 1916
If you read the Barnegat letter in this issue you will get the bayman's idea of the shark question; and will find that they are always here in the summer,in greater or less quantities. It does seem likely that there are more of them just now than the average summer brings; but again it may be simply because attention has been focused on them, and every person who sees one or who catches one, tells about it. For instance, two big fellows, 8 and 12 feet long, were caught Monday at Little Egg harbor inlet, and the captor towed them to Beach Haven, to have a picture taken of them, when ordinarily they would have been left to float away, or else to feed the pigs. At Seaside Park on Monday a twelve footer was caught by Dick Meyer and crew at the Larkin pound. Ordinarily, the catching of a shark in a fish pound is all in a day's work; but just now it is good for a newspaper story.
If you read the Barnegat letter in this issue you will get the bayman's idea of the shark question; and will find that they are always here in the summer,in greater or less quantities. It does seem likely that there are more of them just now than the average summer brings; but again it may be simply because attention has been focused on them, and every person who sees one or who catches one, tells about it. For instance, two big fellows, 8 and 12 feet long, were caught Monday at Little Egg harbor inlet, and the captor towed them to Beach Haven, to have a picture taken of them, when ordinarily they would have been left to float away, or else to feed the pigs. At Seaside Park on Monday a twelve footer was caught by Dick Meyer and crew at the Larkin pound. Ordinarily, the catching of a shark in a fish pound is all in a day's work; but just now it is good for a newspaper story.
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