be oval vatevaluated and be kepd spotter planes keep us updated and wooep we ll continue doing that. your pilot says in 30 years he s seen maybe a handful of sharks but he saw a dozen last september and quite a few this year as well. do you get a sense this is a problem you re going to be dealing with for some years to come there in massachusetts? yes. last year was very unusual. they actually came in the harbor here. this year they ve stayed on our barrier beaches, the shorelines. instead of being the rarity, it may become the norm. what can we learn about sharks from this behavior and from this activity? are you tagging them? are you keeping track in any formal way? yes. the state division marine fisheries is tagging them. they tagged five last year.