Hopefully the sharks are warning each other about the Cape’s “fish trap.”

Yet another thresher shark washed up dead on a Cape beach over the weekend — the second shark that was recently found stranded on a bay beach.

Local shark researchers responded on Saturday to the 13-foot male shark on Eastham’s Campground Beach.

“This is the time of year we see strandings as water temperatures start to drop and species try to move south only to be drawn into the Cape Cod fish trap,” shark researcher John Chisholm, adjunct scientist at the New England Aquarium, posted after leading the necropsy.

“It’s no coincidence that many of these critters wash up along the beaches on the east side of Cape Cod Bay,” he added.

The Cape’s unique shape and position on the coast essentially turns it into a fish w

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