The SHARK Problem that NEEDS to be Addressed... (Commercial Fishing) 

I’ve said this for few people and this is long But I’ve had this plan for awhile but I’m no one so can’t do much yet. So I’ve been wanting to do a shark tournament for a while Most the sharks that we have here in fl are over populated and we are allowed to harvest The week before I wanted to go get a shark you can make video and show people how to process, prepare, keep and cook it. For the tournaments Captain meeting I wanted to make shark 3-4 ways cooked at the end of the show tell them what they ate and how the meat can be used. Tournament can easily take a sharks that don’t migrate and don’t leave wrecks. Tournament has cash prizes for biggest bull shark or lemon the ones that are issues Unfortunately can’t touch a sandbar but lemon and bulls sharks are free game At the tournament we can cook shark for free for all the guest and educate everyone on how good they are Fillet the sharks that are caught to give out to guest and those who attend. I think we can get sponsors behind this local captains and company’s that way it can be an annual or bi annual thing. I love to cook and be willing to do all the cooking and prep for all these things I have a group of guys who are dying to do it just need more people If we can get 10 people to back this plan it promote it and work towards this . We can make something big and if it works then it’s beneficial for everyone. I’ve talked to Miami sheriff about it before they have a big homeless shelter from homestead to above you guys and there’s plenty of places to donate meat and even can do giant cook outs for first responders If all is put on yt / social media the possible and positive impact could be huge I know it’s long but it’s a good plan I’ve been trying to do for a long time but just lmk what you guys think Bull shark and lemons are both legal to take here in Florida we can take out a few of the ones that are an issue with this easily

Between them and the Goliaths it’s getting ridiculous, lost 5 fish at one spot to sharks than moved to lose another 10 to Goliaths

Start a shark tournament

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Absolute first thing that needs to be done is ban shark diving

FWC is 25 years behind on virtually everything. It is as bad or worse in the Gulf. In my area, for every big grouper or snapper you get to the boat, sharks or jewfish get 4 or 5. The resource is being devastated while sharks and jews are protected. It's obvious FWC and NOAA won't do anything so it's up to each of us to save the resource.

On top of bringing back commercial sharking I think there should be a shark calcutta per tournament and a Martin County shark only tournament per year.

old timer from Jupiter here to confirm that there was not a shark problem in the 80's and 90's in south Florida. I've done a few hundred dives out of Jupiter and Palm Beach inlets and the only sharks you saw were nurse sharks hiding under the ledges. Fishing out of Jupiter, we never had fish taken by sharks, only cudas on occasion. I remember my dad taking me to Bryant Park boat ramp as a kid in lake Worth when they used to have shark fishing tournaments. The fisherman would bring in the sharks and they used a crane to hang and weight them. Maybe bring back these tournaments to get the shark population back in balance. If you want to see evidence of the current situation, go the the dock behind the Square Grouper in Jupiter and watch the guys clean fish. The amount and size of bull sharks you will see is terrifying.

Adam , I’m old enough to be your dad, point is this Shark problem started noticeably 😅about 18/20 years ago down south in ft Lauderdale area. It has completely covered the East coast now, hell ft Walton area, their best days are 55/60% bring home. Something definitely has to happen, and sooner than later. 100% Agree with you. Good work their buddy making it happen.

Ngl bro we have been catching one and hanging it at the boat they don’t like it

I love to hear this from a commercial fisherman. My dad ran a charter business out of Stuart and Cudjoe key for years. I am a huge conservationists and always put the ocean first. I am happy to hear someone make the connection between what the sharks eat and how that impacts the fishery. It is a huge problem. Research also suggest that the sharks have learned to follow boats when the leave the dock knowing it leads to an easy meal. People are always so quick to jump on commercial fisherman for the amount of fish they harvest. I worked in the retail and wholesale fish business for years and the amount of crap people gave us for selling fish that are responsibly harvested is crazy. People always want to protect the sharks and I agree with that in a certain extent but it is a huge problem in Florida more so then anywhere else I've fished and I have been fortunate enough to fish all over the world. I couldn't agree with you more that there needs to be a harvest season on sharks, even if its one shark per boat it would do a lot to allow the fishery to recover. I know there has been success with reduction of invasive species to get local restaurants to feature them on menus to introduce people to the idea of eating these animals. Maybe you and Victor can work with some of your local restaurants to put out recipes for cooking them. If you get a known chef to endorse it you can get a lot of traction. Keep doing what your doing. Love watching your content. I hope your charter business continues to grow as it is a better way to earn a living. I will certainly look to book with you on my next trip to Florida. Keep preaching people truly don't understand what you go through.

Take a shark release little Mahi

CANCEL SHARK WEEK

It’s just as bad if not worse in South Carolina. We had a day in 350-800 feet where we didn’t get a single fish off the bottom. What sucks is that almost every fish that got sharked was a snowy. Instead of catching our 2 fish we ended up getting 40 killed for no reason

“I got ate-off hitlered” I’m gonna borrow that one Adam 😂

Glad you showed the fish at the end of the video! That’s the best part! Giving you a like (I usually don’t like any videos) just for that!

Get with Victor to partner with a Restaurateur to start a place that specializes in Shark Meals. Once they are targeted as food, the population will be thinned naturally.

Sharks are out of hand as well as sea lions in Alaska / west coast. Get them in check!

Open a commercial market for shark to export to asia

Amen brother! Same up here in Ponce! Preach it! Need to open shark season for commercial guys!!!

Mandatory reporting from all fisheries commercial and recreational for one year reporting all fish that got sharked for one year that could have a significant impact on the real shark population

Surprised how many fish are still in the ocean

I think people starting to keep sharks would help. Most sharks have bag limits but no one keeps them.

Great video. Yes, it needs to be addressed and I'll harvest what I can. We need less restrictions.

That’s so crazy, sharks gotta be thinned out

Need to get some tiawanese long liner in the area that would take care of the problem 😂

What about getting the shark deterence sound for your boats so the whole fleet could keep them away.

2ft piece of 2by4 30 ft of 130 lb mono to #10 wire and big j hook and a chunk of meat. Or use the red bricks with holes in them if there deep and your fishing in heavy tide try it out.

Adam my boy! Thank you for the video!!!❤ Thank you for the information!!! Something needs to be done about the shark situation!!!😮 When you are older, you need to run for office. The looking at the camera while recording is getting better !!! This might not be a big deal for some but it is. Have you ever talked with someone who is talking to you that refuses to look at you?

The sharks are so bad in the panhandle that i have had sharks get sharked

I completely agree the cape canaveral area has the same issue too many big sharks follow the same pattern as in Jupiter and just use boats for food

The state needs to have a shark run just like they do for populations of deer, elk and hogs. It’s a parks & wildlife issue. Take a bunch of extra buddies that fish for a paycheck and make suggestions and have a news crew with you! Protecting these predators doesn’t help

I grew up surfing blowing rocks and commercial fishing back in the middle 70s and you are absolutely correct!!! The only times sharks got thick was when the mullet ran and that was it! And honestly I was more worried about getting bit by a bluefish than I was about sharks!!! Not now I don't even paddle out anymore!!!! It's sad!!!!

Very bad shark problem. And you are completely right no undersized fish make it back down. Have to come up with a solution.

The first clip catching bait was that Emory in background?

I’m out of jacksonville Florida and if your within 20miles the sharks will sit about 30 foot under the boat waiting for you to hook up we hooked 10 kingfish one morning and landed 2 dew to sharks

Where can you find the sardines offshore?

Nothing is going to happen until there is a market for them and commercial fishermen can make a profit after gear, gas and time. Problem is domestic shark fin trade has been shut down due to people being convinced there are no sharks and the big boys arnt worth anything due to the quality of the meat.

Yo! Fort Pierce /St. Lucie Co. here! I feel you brother! The Goliaths n sharks are an issue for sure. You’re not alone. lol Not to mention seeing 15 plus Blacktips/spinners every sesh! 😎🤙 Drive on bro,turn the handle Randle or get Taxed. 🤣😂

What is the ideal rod and reel for the king fishing that you do

Here in California it’s “Sea Lions”. They follow our boats! Sometimes they won’t let us catch a fish or let the squid float. And they sink boats in the harbor. They stack up on swim steps and break them off. We need more great whites.

I run charters in Panama City Beach and they are terrible up here too my man! I’m sick and tired of tired of it too

Great video Adam, what started as jokes about fish getting eaten just a few years ago has turned into what we deal with today. The severity of these issues has gotten completely out of control for everyone, recreational fisherman, charter fisherman and commercial fisherman. The people who make their living on the water are struggling from these issues the worst such as commercial/charter fisherman like you loosing hundreds of extra dollars in gear and feeding countless fish to sharks every single time you fish. Charter captains all around the state who already need to work extremely hard to get their clients on fish now have to deal with the fish getting eaten by sharks after all the work has been done to get the bite in the first place. The real problem with this is it forces the issue to be dealt with by the frustrated fisherman who are left absolutely no other choice. In my opinion this isn't a conversation about angry fisherman not understanding that sharks live in the same environment as the fish but more so an imbalance in the ecosystem. Whether the cause is the dive boats who have trained the sharks to wait at the boat to eat or because commercial fisherman have no incentive to kill any sharks, this is causing extremely negative outcomes such as 2-3x as many fish being killed on a daily basis due to a 50-75% rate of fish being eaten by sharks. These issues were not always this way and they are getting noticeably worse by the years. These sharks are extremely overpopulated and are showing extremely unnatural behaviors on a regular basis such as attacking engines and trolling motors. Although the fishermen like you or I are not marine biologists, we have spent years and years on these waters and can easily distinguish when something has become unnatural and I think we can all agree that the amount of sharks and the behaviors of these sharks is completely unnatural.

We have the same shark problems here in jamaica 🇯🇲

What brand and kind of rod action are you guys using?

What size rod and reel you like to use for this Adam? I typically slow troll poggies in NE Florida with Tld15s and a medium ugly stick but obviously this rod would be too light for this drifting free line.

Love it bro just saying what every fisherman is thinking!

Weekly State wide shark tournament. Have a kill category and # of lands category.

Glad someone is trying to do something. Sharks are really bad in Ponce Inlet too….

Keep up the good fight on shark problems......may take 20 years, but worth it in the long run.

Last red snapper season in the gulf we were losing 3 fish for every one we landed. Sharks going extinct is total BS

Have to start going to NOAA/SAFMC meetings

I’m not saying kill all sharks but there definitely needs to be a tag system. There’s no reason a shark is only worth 30 cent on the commercial market. Like you said break it down, cook it right and it taste good. I try to take a couple each year up here in north Carolina but even here is slowly getting worse. I’ve seen a couple of absolute giants the past couple of years. And all they do is eat

so many sharks here off GA coast

From Fernandina fl. To the keys and the gulf coast. A major problem. Some how people with common sense have to be put in power. Look at the snapper fishery over the whole state of Florida. What a disaster.

So many ways in life that I've seen in so many different trades I know, an situations I've been in! People in charge an ones that can make a difference or make it work so much easier, have truly no idea n think they know everything an are 100% hardheaded .. But truly know absolutely nothing of what's happening with what they are supposed to know completely!!!!!!! 100% TRUTH...

Getting bad in Texas too man. I completely get it

We need more commercial shark fisherman and less regulations

Sharks are a problem here in the Northern gulf of Mexico as well,.what rod are you using its got good action to it..i enjoy watching your videos

All the way up here in Ponce it’s the same problem.

Preach

I've been charter or commercial fishing all my life one thing I've learned from Noah and FWC is I don't know nothing about shark red snapper are any other problems with fish in general they sitting in office all day and no more than we do keep up the good work Adam we are a dying breed

Sadly the powers that be will take the quota from the commercial fleet instead of addressing the real problem

its the florida regulations... coming from NY and taking my land based shark fishing course that is required the FWC is focusing efforts on shark mortality to make sure even people that are not familiar with sharks and could potentially be killing them are not. it seems like they are trying to get that shark population that high on purpose by setting the regulations the way they are. an open season on the problem sharks would result in results no doubt, but how to not target endangered shark species while still targeting the populous problem ones is probably the issue. are they trying to keep a few from going extinct and making a shark problem? idk this is a complex issue.

When there are 50+ boats in the same area catching fish you're doing the same thing the dive boats are doing but on a larger scale. You're feeding the fish. They learn to follow the boats. Just like the shrimp boats everyone likes to fish behind... When you hook and slow down a fish like that, it's easy Pickins no differen that a dive boat chiming and feeding. Imagine 50 dive boats in the same area. I fish from a boat too. Thus I'm as much to blame. No hate just making a point. I'm a subscriber and regular viewer, keep up the good fishing content. DEENS!

You’re not allowed to feed a manatee, but you can feed a damn shark or a Jewish. All you have to do is call it a sightseeing tour or charter. I call bs way to get around laws.

100% agree !!!

Florida took the shark attack of the world title away from Australia several years ago

We're doing our part, APEX Shark Charters!! Only commercial shark fishing experience charter we know of.

In Hawaii the problem got so bad that they banned the shark charters from feeding sharks, almost 10 years ago now. Sharks were starting to associate boats with food, so they would follow the boats back in shore, thus creating a problem for beach goers. After that, shark charters would just go to crabber spots, as sharks tend to gather there due to crabbers dumping by-catch. Win-win for everyone.

In Key Largo we have the same problem, sharks eat most of our catches , we got to catch more fish in order to bring home some fish, the diving boats long time ago they complained that the divers tourists don't see to many sharks and barracudas on the artificial reefs,the were able to convince the authorities to protect the sharks and put limits on barracudas, Now they are out of control all over the state, not counting the sharks attacks at the beachs, Let us know if you or someone organize something to get signatures. Thanks, good video finally someone got it publi. Thanks you.

Is it possible to catch and tag these sharks where the shark tours go. Then verify these same sharks are effecting commercial fishing to shut these tours down.

Its just like tarpon in boca grande pass the sharks know they are going to be there year after year. I understand where you are coming from though thankfully we dont have a major problem on the west coast of florida thankfully.

Bravo Adam

We have a huge shark problem in NC also. They must be managed!

Shark tournament every weekend

Bring back long liners , grind em up and turn em to cat and dog food .

This is so interesting to me. You see the sharks down there and I see the same thing with wolves up here. People in offices making decisions for us don't see shit. Good luck buddy.

FWC allows you to keep several species of sharks. Start keeping one each trip. If everyone does it the numbers will decrease. Shark meat is pretty good grilled.

It's just as bad here in NC brother.

Yes this is the video we wanted thank you

Oh yeah that's right ✅️

We need regulations on feeding sharks worldwide...

It’s the same way in Carolina. I’ve been thinking about the same things you mentioned in this video. FWC is a joke.

Adam I'm thinking long liners at night only . Trot lines here in TN. Bait them up with big macks an profit from the sharks if there's a market over seas. Heard if u gut one an throw guts in the water they will leave the area. Sorry bout this for u guys. We were in St George Island last week in April it was stupid how many sharks we hooked . Saw several crusing the beach in 3 ft of water. Got sharp nose big blacktip an moster sandbars scaring 200 . Never got in the dirty water used drone to drop bait . It was stupid. Harvest them harvest them harvest them . Make a profit on them . Belts hat bands wallets etc.. Greg Norman the PGA pro was called the shark because he made treasures out of the skin . Respect man . Sorry so winded here I. Readyville Tn. God Bless!!

Baited shark dives should be illegal! It is so unnatural! Great rant.

It's really bad this year.

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Need to have shark fest week were u catch sharks and grill or braai for people so they like the taste 😊

Did u ever fix your boat with all the electronics haven’t seen any update vid on it brother

Amazing

KUDOZ ADAM an wat you said is fact! thanks!

Cheers

Unfortunately nothing will change

Bring back fin boats for a few seasons

Start a tournament biggest and most and have shark bites and french fries for sale on land

I been saying for years. We take table fish every time. This causes an imbalance at the least. Now we are seeing shark populations exploding because they are not being harvested. It time shark found its way back on the menu. Especially on the menus of recreational fishermen

I agree. They have stopped shark fishing and this has contributed to an increase in over population of sharks. Back in the late 40's and 50's when I was fishing we didn't have the shark problem that is there today. These sharks are hurting everyone fishing including the sports fisherman. Bring the shark fishing and put restrictions on them just like the other fish. Sharks also have gotten more aggressive and bolder over the years of being protected.

I know that we will never allow foreign longliners into our waters to take care of the shark population. If we could make it viable for domestic longliners to target the sharks that might be the way out of our problem. That is the only thing that will reduce the number of sharks. If they would relax the regulations on all sharks for the recreational guy that would be a huge step forward.

Same issue out of Tampa. Some days it is impossible to bottom fish. The sharks follow the boats (dinner bell). I'd also like to file a complaint about the Goliath Grouper problem. Goliath are destroying the reef fishery. If it continues, there won't even be a Gag Grouper season. Maybe some of those shark divers can teach the sharks to eat the goliath. Then we can nark on the sharks to the FWC and the FWC will authorize a culling of the shark population. Win/win.