It's a prime spot for sharks because it's a deep hole and holds a lot of fish, making it productive for man and beast.State tracking shows the other bull shark hotspot is Goose Point, off Fontainebleau State Park, not far from another popular swimming beach. If you catch a tagged shark, state biologists want you to be careful and let it go. He turned around to look, and then he felt it swim around to the front of him, and when he turned again, it charged at him.”Mitchell Chevalier, with the University of New Orleans and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, viewed the photos of Trent’s bite and saidTrent’s prognosis is great and he should be back to full force very soon.“Without a doubt, it’s a bull shark — probably around 5 feet.”They rushed the seven year old to a local Urgent care center where they were informed Trent had been bitten by a shark.Trent Trentacosta was swimming with his family in Lake Pontchartrain LA Friday, when a bull shark bit his ankle. The conditions were so calm, the family decided to drop anchor ans take a dip. Trentacosta added He(Trent) said that when he was swimming, something bumped him from the back. It says please release. They have tagged about 25 in the last five years. Until the boy was bitten in 2014, there was only one attack attributed to a shark, more than 100 years ago, near the Rigolets. On this July day, Barbera thinks he's hooked a big one, near the Seabrook Hole, which runs as deep as 90 feet.There are plenty of sharks out there and the state is determined to track as many as they can. Seabrook is one, within a half-mile of a popular swimming beach. That one was fatal. The conditions were so calm, the family decided to drop anchor ans take a dip.
"We put a tag on their back. Sightings are rare and few attacks were documented.Attacks on humans are rare. Trent Trentacosta was swimming with his family in Lake Pontchartrain LA Friday, when a bull shark bit his ankle. According to a report from NOLA.com, “A shark bit a Lakeview boy swimming with his family in Lake Pontchartrain Friday afternoon. The other apex predator is the garfish.The bulls move in during the summer and move out into the gulf, during the fall and winter. An update from our earlier report from NOLA.com, “A Lake Pontchartrain shark expert quickly and easily caught two bull sharks Tuesday evening in the same area where a young boy was attacked on Friday. A 5-foot shark was caught in Lake Pontchartrain Louisianan. Maps and data on shark attacks and general shark news.Mrs. "Those transmitters have a relatively short range and are picked up by dozens of receivers across Lake Pontchartrain. NEW ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - If you're thinking about swimming in Lake Pontchartrain, you may want to consider this. "I felt a current by my stomach and said nothing was gonna happen to me and then the shark bit me," Trentocosta said at the time. "There's a unique code that will let us know which shark is out there," said Ferguson. The seven year old was out sailing with his family on a clear day.
That tracking shows the young bull sharks move into and out of the lake through the Rigolets, Chef Pass and Seabrook, to eat and for protection from other less freshwater-tolerant sharks.Summer is prime time for young bull sharks to feed in the lake.Bit this isn't just any prey, his goal is to hook one of the deadliest animals on earth, a bull shark.So where are the hotspots?
The attack happened off of Southshore Harbor. Shelly Trentacosta said her family had borrowed a friend’s sailboat and ventured out into the lake. Mitchell Chevalier, who tags sharks for the University of New Orleans and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, caught a 3-foot and 4-foot bull shark with very little effort. "I think it was the amount of time it took to get to the person, because they were swimming so far out," Ferguson said.Two years ago, the state tagged 18 bull sharks, which they are still tracking. Judging by the size of the bite, he was likely attacked by a small bull shark between four-to-five feet long and that bull is not alone.Sam Barbera has a job most sportsmen would envy. In what may be the first-ever documented shark attack in Lake Pontchartrain, 7-year-old Trent Trentacosta was bitten last Friday by a shark.
"I think we've all reeled in a couple," Barbera said. "We saw a couple jumping the other day, spinning. "We're trying to put out multiple baits at different depths to give them a number of looks," he said.Now, they are seen, electronically thanks to tiny transmitters placed in their stomachs.Up until recently, very little was known about bull sharks and their activities in Lake Pontchartrain. The boy was swimming in Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, when something bumped into him in the water and chomped down on his foot, USA Today reported. "Most in the lake are juveniles between two and three years old," said biologist Ashley Ferguson with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.The summer is prime bull shark season in the lake and fisherman for the state are busy catching, tagging and performing minor surgery on sharks that used to swim freely and largely unseen. Summer is prime time for young bull sharks to feed in the lake.
The seven year old was out sailing with his family on a clear day. John O’Keefe, a Canadian tourist, captured the 3,000-pound beast while fishing for sturgeon in Michigan Lake.