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Sports - Outdoors
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
09/05/10
There is no gray area when it comes to sharks, thanks in large part to Steven Spielberg's thriller "Jaws" based on Peter Benchley's novel. No kid of my era who heard the ear-piercing shriek, ''shark!,'' hesitated for an instant; we made a mad dash for dry land even if we were in a pool. Spielberg's fish tale forever changed the public's relationship to these apex predators, and not for the better. Find Us On Facebook
Last week, two bull sharks, each more than 8 feet long, were caught in two separate pound nets set on the Potomac River. Watermen Willy Dean of Scotland, Md., was collecting cow-nose rays for the...
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