Clyde "Bucky" Dennis (pictured left, ensuring the extinction of the Great Hammerhead) and Mark "the shark" Quartiano have both made very visible pregnant Shark kills recently. While their cold-blooded ego-driven bloodfest did is not directly helping Sharks, maybe the backlash from their media circus is. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced that they are holding five "workshops" in June that will allow the public to comment on how they should manage Sharks. The first unofficial proposal is a 4.5-foot size limit on most legal Shark species. While this regulation would not have saved Bucky and Mark's most recent public kills it is a positive step toward stricter regulation. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission--the agency that manages fishing in the coastal water in 15 states from Maine to Florida--is planning to protect pregnant Sharks. This would definitely hurt Bucky's chances of scoring anymore weight records, and put a small dent in Mark's charter business. Are these regulations enough? Nope. Are the regulation agencies moving fast enough? Not really, but at least they are moving. Good news no matter how small and in the face of so much bad news is still good news.
With troglodytes like this patrolling our coasts and Jimmy Buffet theme bars, we need all the good news we can get.

--Sharky