. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. against the pier pilings, he launches a spider kite — which is attached to a lollipop and line baited with a five-pound tuna head — 300 feet away from the pier. As soon as the lollipop melts, the kite flies away, and the line stays in the water. After waiting several hours on the end of the pier, Wolfe doesn't catch anything. However, the week before he had pulled in a 190-pound sand tiger. When Wolfe does pull in a shark, he says the tug on the reel creates a "screaming noise so loud that is can be h
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. against the pier pilings, he launches a spider kite — which is attached to a lollipop and line baited with a five-pound tuna head — 300 feet away from the pier. As soon as the lollipop melts, the kite flies away, and the line stays in the water. After waiting several hours on the end of the pier, Wolfe doesn't catch anything. However, the week before he had pulled in a 190-pound sand tiger. When Wolfe does pull in a shark, he says the tug on the reel creates a "screaming noise so loud that is can be heard down to the pier ; Usually a crowd congre- gates while Wolfe gathers special equipment to reel in the big catch. First, he straps on a harness around his waist and then uses a clip rope to pull the shark onto the Top: At Avon Pier, two young men cut the hook off a skate. Above: Sara Wetzell (left) and cousin Katie Torsiello from Hagerstown, Md., delight in fishing from the pier. Even for an experienced angler like Wolfe who averages three sharks a season — eight during a good year — shark fishing can be dangerous. One time, he broke his ribs while pulling in a shark. "Once I was on another pier and my reel went off," says Wolfe. "I put on my harness and thought it was a small shark. I got thrown up against the ; In July, the DMF began restricting commercial and recreational shark harvest in state waters. Commercial fishers have a bycatch limit of one shark per vessel per day and limited seasons for certain species. Recreational fishers are allowed only one shark per person per day on a fishing pier or one per vessel per day. All sharks except Atlantic sharpnose or Rhizoprionodon terraenovae must be a minimum of 54 inches from the nose to the tail's fork. All other species over 84 inches from the nose to the tail's fork are prohibited except the tiger species or Galeocerdo curvier, thresher or Alopia vulpinus, bigeye t
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