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Another WA killing - should great white sharks in WA remain protected?

http://www.news.com.au/national/surfer- ... 6425990874

I think they should sell off a limited number of tickets. Put some tickets up for tender each year to take a white. Govt makes some money, and the sharks are controlled. Sharks must be fished within two miles of shore to get the ones that swim near the coast.

I believe it was the cage dive industry that began lobbying to protect them, now the chickens are coming home to roost.

there is just as much risk in driving to the beach as there is getting eaten by a shark, we dont kill people when they kill people driving a car we just lock them up for a few years and then they might get out and kill again the difference is the fear of being eaten alive. if you fear being eaten stay out of the water. just my opinion sorry if it offends I voted yes

Great Whites are a magnificent animal, they shouldn't be culled in anyway!!

Leave Em alone!! Stop looking like a seal and you won't get eaten! Simple

there just looking for food in there own kitchen

cant blame them for being hungry.

prooably feel diffrrant if i knew someone that had been atracked

LOL @ polcat.
U know where I sit. Sharks are a critical part of the food chain. We can't have the whole environment to ourselves.....we might as well swim in a giant wave pool.

We dont cull idiot drivers that kill someone. Where would we stop? Kill everything that gets in our way? Gotta learn to live with what is in the environment. I voted yes.

coastaljoy wrote:there is just as much risk in driving to the beach as there is getting eaten by a shark,

Way more risky driving a car .

Matt, dont let those tasmanians rub off on you. Thats the way they think. If it moves, shoot it; if it flows, dam it; if it grows, cut it down

Nah, leave the great whites alone.

I agree with the sentiment, but if they prove to be not endangered, and people keep being attacked, then ...

Not suggesting extermination, just a reduction in numbers.

Spoke to a Perth diver a couple of months ago, he said the attitude towards them down there is possibly changing, as they seem to be showing up more.

Perhaps they could put a bounty on Norwest blowie heads while they are at it

Definite no to culling, if they are endangered or not. I find that argument irrelevant

Let them be. I used to surf a lot until a scare, which gave me a feeling of awe at the same time. Just like if I enter into the eco system where crocs reign supreme, "Enter at your own risk! - Good Luck!"

They are magnificent animals as are our crocs. Difference is that you don't have morons feeding the sharks at the surf beaches and sharks travel thousands of kilometres in search of food.

Feel very sorry for that young man's family and friends and having surfed that stretch of coast in complete innocence, can understand his want to be out there. Great part of Australia. Killing the shark will do nothing but appease the wanton bogan needs of very few. Veil to him and may he catch the cleanest waves in the lofty heavens.

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F#uck em I'm with Matt on this one. Close to shore is not their area it's a shared area and if they want to eat people then they should feel the sharp end of the food chain

dirtyruiz wrote:F#uck em I'm with Matt on this one. Close to shore is not their area it's a shared area and if they want to eat people then they should feel the sharp end of the food chain

Close to shore is their area. Swim and you might get eaten, farkin simple. People know the risks so let them be.

It's not like they can be relocated to the 'shark farm'. Management of the numbers has to be considered.

yep shoot them if they come close to the main land..theycan stay out on the reefs or somehwere else anyways hahahah bl..dy pests all of them