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Hunting the Great White Shark: justified revenge or ecological stupidity?

Post 21

BouncyBitInTheMiddle

This is probably all about the tourism really. I doubt they're really expecting serial shark attacks on humans.


Hunting the Great White Shark: justified revenge or ecological stupidity?

Post 22

Ivan the Terribly Average

Keeping people off Australian beaches would be a challenge. This is a nation that prides itself on its disrespect for authority.

Restricting public access to beaches... I fail to see how this would impact on public revenue. It's not as though there's an entry fee, or anything absurd like that. Besides, a lot of us derive most pleasure from the beach as it's seen from the front bar of the pub on the esplanade. smiley - winkeye

Tourism impacts... Adelaide's beaches are all rather nice and all that, but Adelaide isn't a drawcard for the sort of tourist that wants to laze about on a beach. Beach tourism happens in the warmer, tropical and sub-tropical parts of the country. The last big tourism event in Adelaide was a full production of Wagner's Ring cycle; opera audiences aren't necessarily beachgoers...

It's quite simple, really. Shark patrols, and the intention to kill sharks that kill people in Adelaide waters, are intended as means of protecting the public. Tourism, and state revenues, have nothing to do with it at all.


Hunting the Great White Shark: justified revenge or ecological stupidity?

Post 23

HellGirl18

I have to say it is rather stupid to want to get revenge on a particular shark, seriously how are some general busy bodies been ordered to kill it going to know which one it is? They'd have to kill every one they saw for about 50miles which is just insane. Its been said before in this topic that they are a protected species, yet because of "Jaws" if they harm a human they get senteneced to death if ever found again, yet if a tiger was to harm a human it wouldnt have the same treatment becuase there is no hysteria over them such as 9+ films and a number of books.

Alot of people who are attacked find that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the wrong thing, such as Spear Fisherman Rodney Fox he is quite famous having been quite brutally attacked by a large great white but he addmitted he was at fault because of all the blood that had been diffused into the sea and having the dead fish hanging around his waist would have brought any shark from miles around.

Alot of surfers get attacked becuase they look like the sharks natural prey an being poorly sighted the sharks are unable to tell the difference, but with any animal if we were to mimic their natural prey they too would attack us.

I have collected many newspaper and magazine cuttings over the year of shark attacks and they all appear to follow the same pattern, of being on a surf board or a cut on the leg or other part of the body.

Either way its thought about there is no was that any one can go outand hunt a shark for doing its natural behavior, i mean would you go out and kill a panda for following its natural instincts? Fair enough there are those rare rogue sharks that do get the taste for human blood but these are rare and not seen very often at all.


Hunting the Great White Shark: justified revenge or ecological stupidity?

Post 24

Invizliz

This whole issue is idiotic. The argument is ridiculously simple. You cannot honestly hunt a shark that attacked a surfer going into its (the shark's) space. If a burgler gets injured on an electric fence we'd all think it ludicrous for the police to be after the house owner. I admit though, it would be quite a different story if he were attacked in the seafood section of the local supermarket.


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