Two more people were bitten by sharks off the shores of Fire Island on Wednesday, the fourth and fifth reported bites of the season on Long Island. 'We’ve not seen this before.”
“To have two of these incidents happen for us, for this beach, is unprecedented. We’ve not seen this before,” Bellone said. “What we’re looking at is something of a new normal. Tiger sharks are just a little bit closer to shore than they’ve been … Fortunately we’ve not seen any significant injuries.”
In addition to the shark bites off of Smith Point and Seaview so far this season, people were reportedly bitten off the shores ofAll of the victims survived the encounters with non-life threatening injuries. , a Montauk-based shark conservation group. O’Connell reached out to Suffolk County officials to help them come up with a plan to mitigate and deter shark bites.
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