Aussies considering Great White cull

[daveza]

Btw the sharks in the western cape is doing a ****ty job of keeping seal numbers in check.

Imagine if there were no sharks.

 

[(@) (@) twister]

Imagine if there were no sharks.

As I said people can also cull seals
Hell we can even re-introduce the fur trade.(just imagine the amount off jobs/wealth that could be created?
Off course the hippie tree huggers won't be happy.

 

[Ninja'd]

The sharks aren't the bad guys here. If someone came into my house, dressed only in a speedo, I'd probably attack him too.

 

[daveza]

There are at time up to 75,000 seals on Seal Island.

1000 seals can consume over 15000 Kg fish every day.

We need more sharks.

 

[killadoob]

The sharks are doing a poor job because we are doing such a good job killing all of them

 

[(@) (@) twister]

Cull the seals

 

[w1z4rd]

For once we are a minority. Sharks control 75% of the planet, time to take some of it back!































jk.

 

[smb3]

In general it isnt really a good thing to mess with nature ... lol

But what's the point in culling in Australia? ... just so that there can be a few more people in the sea during summer time when the tourists come around? .... then what about winter? .... seems more about money making now when I think about it that way

If they do decide to cull for whatever reason ... they better end up having an extremely good idea with all the shark meat ... i suppose that would also be sold in the end ...

 

[daveza]

Cull the seals

Why not just cull humans, then there'll be enough fish for the rest of us.

 

[w1z4rd]

Seriously though, I like sharks, but meh, the amount of shark attacks we have in our town is crazy. Every year a couple of people die on our beaches. And people saying that the victims deserved it because they were swimming, is like saying a woman deserves to be raped because of the way they dress. No one deserves it, and normally the guys that get munched are the biggest supporters of shark rights.

I wanna know why people overreact to shark culling, when we cull elephant, lions and thousands of other species already. Why just the sharks? Dont the land animals deserve some anti-cull love as well?

 

[(@) (@) twister]

Why not just cull humans, then there'll be enough fish for the rest of us.

Funny you should say that.
In another thread I said that earth was not meant to have more than 5 billion people.
So yes there should be fewer people, now if governments just want to introduce measures to limit human population growth.

 

[daveza]

I wanna know why people overreact to shark culling, when we cull elephant, lions and thousands of other species already.

Because they are not on the endangered-species list.

Some perspective - there are less than 100 shark-related human deaths per year.

That's less than 10 per month globally !

Snake bites account for 50,000 deaths, elephants around 500.

On the other hand around 6000 people are killed every year by falling off ladders.

 

[rainynight65]

Because they are not on the endangered-species list.

Both Lions and African Elephants are considered vulnerable species. Which means that the balance can tip against their favour very quickly. I don't think we should so easily decide which species should be protected and which shouldn't.

 

[daveza]

Both Lions and African Elephants are considered vulnerable species.

Indeed, one category below Endangered.

A correction - Great White's are also ' vulnerable ', not endangered.

 

[Vegeta]

Because the fish we eat will get eaten by the bigger fish that the sharks feed on.

Seals are a good example.

( ps; I know seals are not fish... )

pffft then we'll just eat bigger fish and seals. We're humans we get to eat whatever we want.