OK - for the record, I am not one of those that normally jump off the deep end about shark fatalities and suggest hunting down the animal, in it's own environment, but it seems to me that things are definately getting worse as far as the frequency of shark attacks in WA.
2 fatalities at Cott in 11 yrs spells real trouble and perhaps a shark returning to the same succesful territory?
www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-10/missing-swimmer-shark-attack/3460948?section=wa
For those who don't know Cott it is year round one of the most popular and family friendly beaches in Perth.
Condolences to the Martin family and friends.
come on GF it's whale migrating season . Of course there are sharks as they are following the whales down the coast . All this calling for culling is bull**** . Once we start taking the life of rapists, pedophiles and drunk drivers then cull sharks . Until then......
but my thoughts go out to the family for their loss .
Very sad,
I noticed the conditions were all there, calm, overcast, murky water, rained within
24 hours.
Is it true they buried a whale in the sand at Cott years ago ??
With over fishing, over population and exponential growth of human kind a current protection against shark culling this situation will increase and it will become more frequent.
Eventually if society doesn't come up with a futuristic shark barrier to prevent them coming within a swimming zone then more people will be eaten and your gonna have to start killing them.
Start now I say we're the top of the food chain lets reclaim it, stuff the sharks!
I don't know why there is such a debate on the shark it's killing humans plain and simple, if it was any other animal mass killing us we'd wipe them out so whats the problem?
What suprises me is how long it took to identify a shark attack after finding the speedo's. Surely the heavy skidmark would of been a dead give away.
Before saying 2 fatalities in 11 yrs is a problem you'd have to compare it to the stats for other non-natural causes of death in Cottesloe. Car crashes, workplace accidents, stabbings, drownings etc.
There have been zero attacks at Cottesloe during times of good visibilty, when the sharks can see what they are biting.
(Not statistically significant, but seems to reflect the conclusion shark experts make from attacks all over.)
There's a large window of acceptably safe swimming opportunities for families, given Cottesloe's generally sunny weather.
How many years ago was it deemed ok to kill all the sharks in an area for the safety of swimmers? It probably happened in the 70's or 80's?.. I dunno but I recall a documentary about people getting angry, and culling the grey nurse...
Now, only a small minority of people think that way.. Progress, a genuine zeitgeist!.. Even everybody's favorite trigger happy Doggie is one the sharks side!!..
Nobody panics if somebody drowns, or gets run over, overdoses, or shot in Afghanistan, because it's all part of the plan.. But one little shark bites one little swimmer and everybody looses their minds!!
Have an idea! capture them alive and send them to Xmas island...... Then sink the boats and there we are 2 probs sorted!
Hope they do not mind halal food!
Hope they do not mind halal food!
Hope they do not mind halal food!
Hate to be on the receiving end (the teeth or being given the news...)
Condolences from me..
(^ Yum - BBQéd swordfish on a skewer as a kid in Turkey - my favourite - instead of shish-kebab - shish-kalish <sounds like that but spelling - who knows> so GWS would be spot on)
Do U have shark nets over there around the city beaches?
We do on the sunny coast and despite comments to the futility of them, the comments and observations of the contractor handling the nets is the opposite. They are indiscriminate in what is caught - although I reckon the dolphins along our beaches are aware of them. Talking to the in-laws about their youth and anyone living by / near the sea knew of at least one acquaintance killed by a shark. In part due to way better trauma response and resourcing, but also in part due to the nets this is not the norm' now. The nets are good at removing the territorial predator due to the way they track through their territory.
As for respecting them - nice thought but the number caught de-finned and chucked back in to die by fisherman after shark fin makes knocking a couple on the head annually meaningless in the bigger scheme of things.[}:)]
I know when I am kiting passed the nets it makes me nervous - but no nets - no worries
cheers
AP
Hope they do not mind halal food!
Hope they do not mind halal food!
Look I'm not saying we should automatically go shark hunting.
However, in a few years from now when (IMO) there is a good chance that attcks/fatalaties are very much on the rise (I think we can all agree that fish stocks are depleting and sharks are getting hungry/desperate) we will probably have to give knocking off the ones involved in attacks serious consideration.
Just sayin options should be floated and if a workable shark net can be used then all good if they are deployed at beachies with sharky history
Select to expand quotefelixdcat said... Sharks are the foxes of the sea, if I see a shark bang! fish and chips!
Yet foxes are native, and fill an important ecological niche throughout most of the world.. And sharks are native to the oceans..
Yours is an outdated philosophy, you are the current version of the idiots who exterminated the thylacine..
Our oceans are on the brink of ecological collapse, and your posts will be backtracked by future generations and subject to school history projects on how farking dumb people were in 2011..
Select to expand quotebarn said...felixdcat said... Sharks are the foxes of the sea, if I see a shark bang! fish and chips!
Yet foxes are native, and fill an important ecological niche throughout most of the world.. And sharks are native to the oceans..
Yours is an outdated philosophy, you are the current version of the idiots who exterminated the thylacine..
Our oceans are on the brink of ecological collapse, and your posts will be backtracked by future generations and subject to school history projects on how farking dumb people were in 2011..
Foxes are vermin barn, same as goats but we can eat goats, not foxes..
^^put the emphasis on throughout most of the world... That excludes Australia(for now) , Goats are native also, and some are quite endangered, in certain parts of the world.. You wouldn't shoot an Arctic fox if it was in it's native environment? (hahah ooh deer I'm not sure I wanna kno)
Point is that Sharks are native, not 'Introduced foxes of the sea'
