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Nova Scotia tourism desperately trying to market Great White Sharks as quaint and down-homey.
Liverpool N.S.
“Hey if this was happening in P.E.I. all they’d have to do is toss some pigtails on a cartoon shark and call it ‘JAWS of Green Gables!’, but it’s not so easy here when when the fish are bitin’!” Said Fred Turvey, owner of a local floating seafood buffet company. The surge in Great White Shark numbers along with scattered attacks on humans have caused a problem for Nova Scotia tourism – how to make natures most perfect killing machine more like a granny apple doll. A spokesperson for the tourism board said – “It’s hard to make the jump from blueberry-picking day trips and lobster dinners, to - come on home to Nova Scotia and be the early bird special for an Apex predator!”
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