southace said..jbshack said..pweedas said..WA71 said..
Personally I think people will take things into their own hands and its already happened from what I've been told.
Will culling twenty stop the attacks?
I thnk it will.
An indication of this is that you said someone in an area north of perth might have removed an offending shark, or two maybe?
jbhack was quite upset about it.
Maybe one or two others have done likewise.
I don't think they cleared the ocean of sharks but whatever has happened, if anything at all, the fact is that in the previous year we had about six attacks.
So far this year, xmas to xmas, we have had just one.
Now if you believe that someone has removed just a few sharks, and you said you did, then that is a very good indication that removing just a few will very much reduce the problem.
And yet a few days ago you said that it would make no difference. ???
Of course it will never totally fix the problem, because if there are sharks in the water, eventually someone will get bitten, even if by a reefy or wobbygong.
But it will definitely remove any problem caused by a shark or sharks which don't mind snacking on the occasional swimmer as a matter of course.
Ther remaining risk we have lived with always and is taken as acceptable.
I think if you killed 20 great whites of our WA coast line then you would see a big difference in Great White sittings, for a few years at least. If what Pweeda is hinting at if at best 4 have been killed already (back door style) and there is a difference in this years attacks because of that, than I think by killing 20 will make a big difference.
It will also put us as a nation on the same list as the rest of worlds poorest or most arrogant nations who thumb our noses at the rest of the world.
I would have to disagree with that sorry. If you took 20 from WA waters the 20 that would be current at South Australia. Will possibly arrive with in the following months...
This is all a bit crazy do you guys know how old these sharks are that are attacking? They where not born last year! They have been swimming round half of OZ for the past 7 to 20 years for all we know only 20 sharks may have been born this year!
About 9 males to 1 female and they don't reach maturity till approx 15 years. THIS IS WHY THEY ARE PROTECTED
Nothing has really changed... These same sharks have been in the same waters they are not new this year.
If we had a outburst of small GWS causing havoc yes then it might be time for a cull.
I have seen approx 100 GWS and only approx 3 under 2 meters. 90 males and maybe 10 females.
I wasn't suggesting anyone hop out there and remove 20 sharks just for the sake of removing a specific number.
I said all along,
every time there is an attack, fatal or not, get out there quickly and remove the shark while it is still in the area.
Don't waste weeks talking about it and then be surprised when removing the first shark you come across makes no difference.
Of course it wont. It will most probably be a different one.
But if you remove the shark which is in the same area as the attack, within hours of the attack, then there is a high probability that it will be the right one.
And then, don't kill any more until and unless, there is another attack.
If you cant get someone there within hours then you have given the job to the wrong people.
If another shark swims in from south australia or africa, which initially it no doubt will, and attacks someone, then that gets removed too.
That way, even if it takes two or three or five years to clean the place up, at least it will be done eventually.
For those that say it will take too long and still cost lives, I agree. It will.
But it will be less lives than it is costing us now by doing nothing.
Because that is what we are doing now, nothing.
If we had started this ten years ago, the loss of lives would have been far less and the oceans would be far safer, at the cost of maybe 10 sharks and less shark victims.
If we keep doing nothing, eventually public opinion will swing so far as to demand an all out indiscriminate culling of hundreds of them.
It's close to that now.
Around 1,500 people die on our roads each year , its around 40,000 in the States. Facts are their are a Billion ways to die and dying from a shark attack is low on the list of possibilities even if you spend a lot of time in the ocean.
. This way we can move forward from this mentality we have been stuck in after every shark attack pro cull/anti cull then nothing happens and people keep getting chomped, whats the definition of insanity again.....
and may have made a fool of myself, so let me set things straight.
