June 17, 2015 — OAK ISLAND, N.C. — Oak Island town leaders are asking the state for a temporary ban on shark fishing.
Town Manager Tim Holloman said they asked the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries for a ban on shark fishing through July 4. This comes after two teens lost limbs from shark attacks over the weekend.
“There are always big sharks here,” Fisherman Thomas Cutler said.
Fisherman and Marine Biologist Thomas Cutler said the sharks swimming along Oak Island Beaches are nothing new.
“I’ve lived here for 10 years,” Cutler said. “There is a run of bull sharks that are 10 feet long in the middle of December chasing the Blue Fin Tuna and no one knows about it.”
He said they have also been catching them for years.
“We shark fish and cull them out,” Cutler said.
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