From: Jennifer Hanson, thenorthbaybay.ca staff
Lake Nipissing is home to three visiting Brazilians.
“Happy,” “Harry” and “Sir Bites-A-Lot,” three juvenile bull sharks from Port Suape in eastern Brazil, were released into Lake Nipissing Sunday evening.
“We had a little ceremony for the sharks,” says handler Bruce Rechin. “Most people on the dock found it pretty interesting. Playing the theme from Jaws might have been a bit much though.”
The sharks are part of a pilot project aimed at eliminating invasive fish species in Ontario’s lakes.
“The basic idea is that a bull shark will eat just about anything, and that will no doubt include a very healthy diet of invasive species like black crappie and carp.”
While Rechin can’t guarantee “that they’ll only eat those fish” he says he has a feeling they’ll be the main course.
“I whispered that those were what they should eat into where I think their ears are before I released them.”
Happy Freshwater Sharks
Those worried that the sharks won’t survive need not, says Rechin.
“Unlike other sharks, bull sharks are fully capable of living in fresh water,” explains Bruce.
When mature, “Happy,” “Harry” and “Sir Bites-A-Lot” will each weight over 200 lbs., be 7+ feet long, and will be able to swim up to speeds of 19 km/hr.
But could any of the sharks be accidentally caught by fisherman?
“It’s very unlikely. Bull sharks are positively ferocious, and are actually known to attack fishing boats, so I think our little buddies will be A-OK.”
Swimming Concerns
Those concerned about swimming in a lake that’s home to 3 incredibly aggressive predators shouldn’t be, says Rechin.
“Lake Nipissing is a very big lake, and it’s only 3 sharks. Just remember to swim with a friend and maybe don’t go in after dark.”
Bruce says North Bay should embrace the sharks.
“They could be the city’s new mascots,” smiles Rechin. “We’re the first Ontario city to introduce sharks in our lake, so I think we ought to count our blessings and be happy!”
Other northern Ontario cities are looking at similar programs.
“I know that Thunder Bay just got 300 freshwater piranhas,” says Rechin. “But between you and me, I’d never go into that lake again with them swimming around. All those teeth?”
Rechin shudders.
“Freaks me right out.”
Crazy, are they all males or are they able to have more baby sharks?
It’s two females and one male 🙂
Are we not concerned about swimming in the lake? After all, it is very popular recreational lake.
Haha. I get it bullshark bullshit
You got to be kidding,,are these guys on Crack….have the sharks been shown pictures of what fish to eat and the ones not to touch….I think this pandemic fever has touch the frickn brains….people have put up with the conservation effoerts ,slot sizes etc to bring the walleye populations back and these ,,Bone heads put …SHARKS in athe Lake ….Is everyone at MNRF ON Crack too…Every one keep the people responsible for this Nut case ,address handy and if anyone gets biten …head to the nearest Lawyer and sue these dick heads….
When I thought that humans couldn’t get any stupider. Now introducing invasive species to get rid of invasive species, but these ones can eat us…so no more swimming in the lakes…and why males and females? Just to make things worse. These people(for use of a better word) need to give their heads a shake to get their brains working again!!
This is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard of. You’ve released, not just one, but THREE ferocious and aggressive predators into a lake people and children use frequently. And not only that but you have made it so that these sharks have the opportunity to procreate. This is a serious and life threatening problem just waiting to happen. I find it truly disturbing the willingness to put people’s lives at risk just because of lack basic intelligence and common sense. There has to be a better solution than this.
Lol. Thanks for the laugh!
Seriously can’t believe how gullible people are..lmfao!!!!
I’ll take my chances in Thunder Bay with the piranhas
Total insanity.
People believing this must be very very gulable so if you would plz put your credit card number/ date of expiry and CVV number in the comments we are currently looking for donations to make shark houses underwater so the sharks feel more at home
Seriously people, this is fake news, try not to be so gullible.
You honestly shouldn’t post crap like this with the amount of gullible people there are. Please just post informative and correct information. And please put out a retract because you can obviously see by the comments the amount of people that trusted your news.
Hahaha. So funny.
Kill them fucking walleye eaters bad enough sports fishermen can hardly get a keeper I catch one I’ll grind him up into chum for his other two buddy’s
The person who wrote this article is a total fuck head. So many people are gullible and will believe this. Your a bitch
Well I guess I am going shark fishing nice wall mount
So…far from April 1st…..yet saturated with fake newsism….yes….new word sneakin by…..but spacivicly not hearing a responce from any department from our,,chosen by votes, personelle in city hall, ohhhhh…..i get it now. Theyll just be the last to know…then we’ll know. Looks like a….we squeeze limit our pickerel….but shark…but those who’ve we’ve voted to city hall already devoted our city towards….”a retirment community” We got sharks now…..now, it seems….we are more into thee Tourism vibe. Who and what in the hell is going on at our costly city hall? If i hear one more that the locals havebeen informed thru The North Bay Nugget…i’ll know for certain why and how this paper has yet to fold. thanks to those who read this thru…..but im just gettin started!!
Must be a slow day in the news room.
Lookin for squid chum,,,,or….its an illegal bait?
Haha had me fooled the first half of the story…
A story doesn’t have to be true….as long as it’s good!!
That’s as good as the Chef capsized at her mooring
That’s as good as the Chef capsized at her mooring
Not funny
Why not add some Great Whites whilst your at it, oh and few anacondas.
Stop posting this shit. We know who you are Jenifer Hanson. Get a real job.
You guys do realize this a satire site. This is false info. They got most of you pretty good
Lmfao I got more out of reading the comments then the actual story. Its mind boggling how gullible people are.
This article was first released, no pun intended, on April 1, give your head a shake, it’s fake news.
I’m so happy I get to finally use my shark cage when I go diving ! 🤣😂
🤦♀️ the northbay bay news is literally all fiction. Their site even has a disclaimer lol people need to read into things a little more 🤣 cant get mad at the writer(s). Shows us things could be worse I guess…
I love this shit keep up the great work
Gosh darn sharks in the water! What in heck are they gonna think a next? We even gonna be able to head down to the lake and do any vertical standin in the water safely anymore? And now I hear theys releasing dem old anacondas too! Whats next, fillin the lake with coronas so we catch the bug?
I am really not into fake news. It should be banned.
I think all Dianes should be banned.
That proves it the whole world is going absolutely nuts
Your gonna need a bigger boat
Really people, this is as fake as it gets. If you believe in no salt water sharks than you probably believed in the tiny pet hippos from the commercials.
What I find funny is that you say it’s rare for us to come into contact with them because nippissing is a big lake.
Bull sharks are aggressive, common, and usually live near high-population areas like tropical shorelines. They are not bothered by brackish and freshwater, and even venture far inland via rivers and tributaries.
That is classic i love this:))
Good one tho
Remember Professor’s Lake in Brampton Ontario. During the 1980’s idiots were dumping pirhanas into it. Every spring people were catching them instead of the bass that were in the lake.spring
Ha! This is gold!! Those that are bitter at this article must be such joys to be around :p lol.
What I find funny is that you say it’s rare for us to come into contact with them because nippissing is a big lake.
Bull sharks are aggressive, common, and usually live near high-population areas like tropical shorelines. They are not bothered by brackish and freshwater, and even venture far inland via rivers and tributaries.lol alot of gullible people, if you want to try to get people to actually believe it, try doing more research on the story before posting it lol. funny tho. Haha
Hahahaha! Lmfao funny! Bullshit, along with bullsharks is haha .What I find funny is that you say it’s rare for us to come into contact with them because nippissing is a big lake.
Bull sharks are aggressive, common, and usually live near high-population areas like tropical shorelines. They are not bothered by brackish and freshwater, and even venture far inland via rivers and tributaries.lol alot of gullible people, if you want to try to get people to actually believe it, try doing more research on the story before posting it lol. funny tho. Haha
they will die in the winter..
We have had bull sharks in the killbear park area of Georgian Bay for years. We lose 2 to 3 swimmers a year. The local authorities list them as drownings but us local fishermen know the truth.
You know fish don’t die in the winter right? 😂😂 Ice fishing duh to the person
I’m truely saddened by the number of people believing this…. just proof that idiots will believe anything the internet tells them!
This is a fake website! All this news is bull shit. Lol. Why people even write fake shit that makes it look like it’s real is beyond me. And even if this is what you want to write, maybe at the end of your coloum like the last sentence write this is just a fake story, so you don’t upset people into thinking it’s real. Having it at the last sentence of it explain it’s not real. People can’t see at the end of all the comments at bottom of page. Most people don’t even notice unless they really look.
Lol people are so gullible! This is FAKE y’all .
Either way, it would be nice to be able to ask questions to the person who wrote this fake stuff.
It’s one thing to write fake stuff, it’s another for all the people who believe this story, your scaring people.
I knew it was fake but for the f of it I dug for more information, 1) Bull sharks are the most known for the most shark attacks on people in general. 2) even if you say our lake is big and would be very unlikely to come into contact with people, they always are close to shorelines. Even tho this is fake you should have done your research better to make it Abit more believable, and also your last sentence should inform people it is a joke. Having it all the bottom of the page after the comments isn’t noticeable unless you really look into it.
So if possible can the person who wrote this send me a email I just have a few questions. Nice questions.
[email protected]
Why not? Arizona is using imported pterodactyls from the Galapagos islands to combat mosquitoes & fight off typhoid.
Think of the lives saved
Did you tag them with gps so you could at least track them?
Just when I thought humans couldn’t get stupider they go and believe this satire news story!
I know this publication is a satire publication…
BUT, who ever wrote that piece sure did their homework first and picked one of the very few specie of shark that can actually live in fresh water…good one…LOL
The story was good for a chuckle but the comments are priceless. Lighten up people! We need a little comic relief.
you people are freaking crazy , daaaaahhh we need to hunt them down and kill em, before they kill us
Leave the fresh water lakes alone you shouldn’t fuck with mother nature everything is in lakes for a reason
Idiots there not telling u the whole story …bull sharks are nasty sharks the worst ones to put there…they will attack anything that swims …so means u ….too…what a fantastic idea ministry .. another bright idea…Google bull sharks …learn the whole story…
Only a liberal would believe this lmao
The most ferocious maneating shark in the world even worse than the great white released into Canadian fresh water. One of our freshest lakes and like someone saaid they eat anything so say good by to pickeral,pike,bass and a mess of other freshwater fish..Who in their right mind would do something so mindblowingly stupid..This has to be a hoax..If not you are stupid in the head to do this..
Ok who’s in charge of this non sense articles. Lol
I’m looking for funding for a Komodo Dragon pilot program. They will be free to roam the streets in select towns to encourage citizens to self-isolate during COVID-19 wave 2.
you people are too stupid to see through basic bullshit and shouldn’t be allowed to vote. No wonder politicians have such an easy time convincing masses of retards to vote for them. Hey guys we’re gonna build a wall and Mexico will pay for it. Ring a bell? Get a clue
Gill net owners will be upset ,,,lol
Fake news people:
https://thenorthbaybay.ca/fake-news-site/
This was a wonderfully structured story!!! In defense of the “gullible” people, I can see the ministry/ city doing something stupid like this. Just goes to so you need to do your own research and ask questions. Thanks for the laugh!!! You almost had me. 😉
We have enough bull sharks in Queens Park . Ontario really does not need any more.
Evidence is far too readily available, health & safeties well fed and funded o.c.d. team stacked the deck a bit heavy against natural selection in our region. Nothing wrong with a little balance lol
I heard they eat Covid 19 so beware you might wake up with a bull in bed lol
Going to need a bigger boat
Someone PLEASE scroll to the bottom of the page and read the disclaimer.
Article funny… Yes
Stupid comments from those that fell for it even funnier…. most definitively
Very smart….. not wait till some little kid gets pulled under the water, I hope you think twice once it happens it’s just a matter of time l, then this idiot is going to spend more taxpayers money to find those sharks and get them out of the water !!!!
maybe the issue is not that we are gullible but we believe government to be stupid enough to do something like this.
The lesson here is that people should not just blindly believe (and react to) everything written on the internet lol. A little reading comprehension goes a long way folks!
Is it April 1st???? 😖😵😱👹
I hear there are enough skittles on the side of the road from the winters operations to feed them. Btw, I have a 5 storey fish hut for sale if anyone is interested…
Just look at the websites title lmao ” the north bay news source you can blindly trust ” I got a great laugh out of this.
Put chum in water with blood and see for. Your self if it real or not then you can debunk the lies from the truth
Right on…..a Canadian spinoff of Sharknado!
really !! who was the idiot who thought this would be a good news story?
more so
Who was the idiot who run with this?
I have lived here for 55 years.
swam in this lake for all of them.
putting this idea into people’s heads that Lake Nipissing has 3 sharks – even if this fake news – will kill the tourist attraction to come to North Bay to visit our beaches to swim, fish spend your holiday here in Ontario.
The North Bay news source you can blindly trust.
if you have nothing real to print or report – then don’t print or report.
close your local reporting and leave the fake new to the Trump reporters..
Jenifer this is not a good news story and will be forever be stuck in peoples heads. you’re going to get a bad rap for not reporting true news.
even if you report a retraction – this wend out there.
There are some that will believe this is true and spread the word and that will be money lost for North Bay.
try reporting the truth about something.
Well said Darrell
We’re gonna need a bigger boat?
We are not in America. Stupid to put this out there. As Darell said, leave the trump reporters to this stupidity. Gullible I may be, but I am from out of town and did not know about this Satire web site. Someone texted me on messenger with this story and vowed not to ever swim at my cottage again. Thank you very much Jennifer Dipshit!
I truly believe this is all bullshit. Never heard anything on the news. This is Facebook bullshit.
I know everyone is saying this is satire but there really is a species of sharks called the bull shark (google it) and they are fresh water sharks known to live in rivers in the US. But my guess would be Canadian waters would be too cold for them if this was really true—I’ve heard stupider things suggested to get rid of invasive species!
But can they survive a Canadian winter under the ice?
The really great thing is its possible to put bull sharks in fresh water. Id like to get my hands on a couple and put them in some fresh water lakes and just see how they do. I dont think its all that treble. Weres your sense of adventure. Besides it would be cool to dive with fresh water bull sharks id take the swim.
OMG 🤦♀️ some of you can not actually be seriously believing this ? It’s a JOKE !! 😂
This would never actually happen. Although bull-sharks could survive in fresh water for some tome, they would never survive the winter in the cold water.
But of course, you should definitely believe everything you read on the internet 🙄
Funny thing is bull sharks can only stay in fresh water for so long before theydie xD
Who did the editing of the Fin A toddler
I guess the T-Rex released in the Yukon to eat the Sasquatch is still a secret. I mean you haven’t heard about it, right? There ya go, see what I mean!
IF THIS IS REAL I SWEAR
Okay it’s official I’m not swimming anymore until it’s confirmed a hoax
Now THIS guy gets it:
Greg says:
June 30, 2020 at 12:24 pm
Why not? Arizona is using imported pterodactyls from the Galapagos islands to combat mosquitoes & fight off typhoid.
Think of the lives saved
Holy crap, best laughs I’ve had all week! Keep up the great writing!
We don’t want them here…… GET THEM OUT!!!
I don’t see the point of this ..some believe it and this has caused some grief for kids ..I love a good joke ,this just was not one