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Sharks want the fish on your line. And it's happening more often.

A striped bass bitten off a fishing line in Woods Hole. Likely it made a dinner for a brown shark.
S Junker
A striped bass bitten off a fishing line in Woods Hole. Likely it made a dinner for a brown shark.

There's a term for when sharks bite fish off your line: "shark depredation." It's on the uptick, and now even Congress is getting involved.

Kevin Blinkoff of On The Water joins us to talk about why shark depredation is on the rise, and what fishermen can do about it.

And we round up the week's Cape Cod fishing action. Give a listen.

Steve is Managing Editor of News. He came to WCAI in 2007. He also hosts the weekly News Roundup on Friday mornings and produces The Fishing News.