Sharks?

finaly I agree it's time for a cull? Mosquitoes kill! AIDS kill! Rabbits kill! Fox kill! Crocs kill! North Korea and Isis kill! Oh no poor shark eating machine let's keep feeding him and breed him up and take everything else from the ocean? Really?

I will not comment on this thread other than this... I have banned myself however my opinion is clear from prior discussion.

Too soon

i think that the great whites might be more prevalent sue to greater numbers of whales etc.
watersports/ surfing etc all grew in a time when there were low whale numbers. now they are back to normal and we have lots of sharks. If we expect to be able to continue the way we have we are going to have to cull the gws in WA and SA. I daresay there will be a decline in tourism and watersports if we do nothing. I live in a non GWS are and spend heaps of time in the water. I do a lot of speqarfishing and am not overly afraid of sharks. But i;; be fxcked if i get in the water anywhere there could be a great white, even just swimming. Ditto with large crocs near high pop areas on the east coast.

Point is the big bruce and britney sharks have grown up since the protection laws came out and now they are big and breeding and grabbing what they can for a feast to maintain there evolution!

^^ Which is another term for culling. There were a lot less attacks and fatalities when it was still ok to take a shark, because there were a lot less sharks. Der...

There was a hippy dude on abc 24 expressing his views on tv over the past week wish I could find the link. He suggested it should be called fishing and expressed that younger GWS are actually eatable and can be used for many health benefits. My thoughts cull the over 3 meter sharks and give water users a 10 year break.thats how it's been in the past 20 year cycle!

Bloody do gooder Greenies. Just don't go in the water, you know they live there, thats the sharks home.
Bloody inner city greenies who's only exercise is the 200m ride on their fixie down to their local trendy coffee shop for their deconstructed soy latte, sitting their making FB page after FB page to protest the next trendy thing to be offended by.
The only surf they will ever see is from the bar at the Kelly Slater wave pool while the sip their locally made boutique IPA.

Id like to see what happened if a brown snake wondered into one of these greenies backyard and bit their 17 year old daughter and she died. In theory your backyard is just the snakes land also, so don't go in their land and don't ever leave your house.

Cull them under the "commercial fishing" mumbo jumbo, I'm sure we could easily sell them to China or Japan.
Great White shark fin soup anyone?

People make a great point about the tourism. At this point I would not travel to WA or SA and surf, so so highly unlikely I know, but Im just not doing it. Humans have evolved superior intelligence to be able to protect themselves and therefore we are top of the food chain, hell no do we want people been eaten by less superior animals.
To me these hippies are valuing sharks lives above humans.

If i kill someone I go to jail for life, I may swell be dead, id probably prefer to be dead than in jail forever.
Maybe we can build big pools and put the sharks who kill people in those, make them swim around and think about what they have done.

Maybe if we put it in the papers that the Great Whites are backing the USA then Kim Jong Un will nuke them.
Problem solved

Sharks are not the killing machine that Hollywood makes us to believe. There are over 500 known species of shark and among those only 3 are known to be dangerous - the bull shark, tiger shark, and the great white shark. Humans are not their natural prey they only attack humans when they feel that their habitat is being threatened.