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Re:When One Protected Species Kills Another by crooked-v on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @06:22PM (#20099834)
Hawaii's population has also increased from 1.1 million people in 1990 to 1.4 million people today. There's no great peculiarity around the fact that more people means more encounters with sharks.

Also, "dramatically" is quite the claim, when there's a total of only 137 recorded shark attacks in Hawaii ever (including incidents without injuries) dating back to the 1700s.

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Re:When One Protected Species Kills Another by obpacheco on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @12:26AM (#20101480)
I was just parrotting the interview I listened to but after looking into it it's not false to say that shark incidents are definitely increasing in frequency from using information from https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/sharks/shark-incidents/incident-grap...

Just eyeballing here there was 6 shark atacks from 1980-1985 to about 50 in the last 5 years. Seams like that backs up his claim that there has been a dramatic increase.

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