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The drum line consists of a drum, with two lines attached to it, one line is attached to an anchor going to the sea floor, the other has a baited shark hook. In order to keep people from stealing the drum, it is filled with a rigid polyurethane foam, which both helps it float, and fills it to keep it from being stolen out of the water for storage. In order to attract sharks, the hooks are baited with red mullet and false jacopever. Since the objective of the drum line is to get sharks away from popular beaches, not to attract the sharks to the beaches, only about 500 grams of bait are added to each hook to reduce the attraction of sharks. The sharks can only sense these baits from a couple hundred meters away.
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