Shark experts raised the issue of âshifting baselinesâ when state fishery managers held a round-table discussion recently on sharks off Florida interacting with anglers. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission invited the experts to educate them last week on the fishery and the species as the commissioners hear complaints from anglers about sharks stealing their catch or bait. Anglers who are now complaining are only measuring their interactions from the last 30 years when shark conservation regulations were in place and the population rebounded. They do not have the perspective of watching the shark population decline for decades from overfishing for their fins, scientist and renowned artist Guy Harvey and Mote Marine Laboratory scientist Bob Hueter said. Finning was banned in Florida and the United States in 1992.