month. and beaches in massachusetts have also had to close after more than a dozen shark sightings off the coast of cape cod. joining us, chris coco at the georgia aquatics aquarium. chris, i think i speak for everyone with a beach trip on the horizon when i ask what is going on with the shark sightings. hey, i d like to know too, i go to the beach with my family we all love jumping the surf and using our boogie boards and so forth. unless you re somebody bitten by a shark there are positive signs of what s going on here. i think i should start out by saying there are probably some really good ideas and chases to make when you go to the beach and that s to, you know, placed life guard protection and have known flag posts and boundaries for a safe beach area. so, that s the first thing to start with. and one question people have, when they see the numbers going up like this, do you think
they ll see more of this as the summer goes on? possibly so. and i think it s really a function of what the sharks, the juvenile sharks are eating. typically, the sharks that bite people by mistake, what we call shark attacks are the result of mistaken identity. the sharks are at shore, very shallow water, eating small fish, typically, known locally as bunker, bunker has come back in great numbers after conservation and protection of those animals after numbers of years after overharvested for cat food production and so forth. it s a positive sign that the waters are healthy and that the fish are back. but the downside the human interaction with sharks through mistaken identity and just bad luck, perhaps. and, chris, it s clear what threat sharks pose to humans, obviously, the food source is