Shark attack at rotto

Probably the same one that did the Cott attack two weeks ago.

The possibilities are, either there's lots of white pointers around and they all enjoy eating people in their spare time, or it's the same shark that unlike most white pointers, has taken a liking to feasting on people.
Either way, sharks that eat people need to be removed from the system.

If there's so many around so as to make shark attacks so regular then we wont miss one or two when we remove them.
If it's only one, then we will miss it even less. Either way, whenever a shark eats somebody we should do the logical thing and get rid of it.

Since we are assured that they don't like eating people then the culling of one or two should fix the problem.

{edit} just as I posted this I hear on the radio that Col has done the right thing and ordered the shark be caught and killed.
Good work Col. But it would have been better if this was ordered after Bryn Martin got eaten. Oh well, better late than never.

The thing I like about Col is that since he was about to retire before the last election and didn't want to be Premier anyway, he is often guilty of doing the right thing rather than what he thinks might be required to keep him in the job.
I wish they would all do that.

According to our learnered rscaife thats easy..... kill em all!!!!!

I'm still not sure if this guy is trolling or serious

WTF!

You've gotta be kidding!
The burden of proof to execute a shark is not quite as stringent as the burden of proof required to execute a person. Well it shouldn't be anyway, but these days it seems it is.

That was the same lame brain excuse they used when Ken Crew got eaten 10 years ago, even though the shark was swimming in the area for a few days.
Some idiots were still asking how we could be sure it was the same shark so by the time the decision was made to cull it, the shark had nicked off.
Thanks to that it was probably the same shark that came back on a regular basis and tops up its calorie intake with the ocasional surf ski or swimmer.

Just go to the same area, throw a dead sheep into the water and drag it behind a boat for a while. If a white pointer turns up of a similar size and starts chewing on it then you can take it that it's probably the same one.
If it's not, I don't think it's family will be dragging your ass through court asking for a retrial and compensation.

Not what he meant: are you gonna kill all sharks that bite the sheep until you find human bits in it ?

How many are you gonna cull, 100, 10000 ?

I suspect you're kidding, but can't find the smiley...

200 whites in the area...... Hmmmmmmmmm somehow I don't think so.

3 fatal attacks in 7 weeks isn't exactly "rare attacks"

Nah personally I don't think it was the same shark.
Yep there are plenty out there. Caught plenty (not whites) and had whites come up and hang around my boat on a couple of separate occasions a few k's of the metro coast while fishing.

^^^^^^Î agree.
Try again.

RIP Skindiver man!
I'm sure the majority of ocean users would be more than happy to see a cull of
whitey's or at least one, to justify 4 human deaths in just over 12 months.Not to mention the other attacks where people have survived.

CSIRO has a paper on line

"Changing patterns of shark attacks in Australian waters
John G. West"

at

www.publish.csiro.au/MF/pdf/MF10181

Conclusion
Patterns of attack have changed substantially over time as a
result of the changing population and human behaviour. If
human activity related to water-based activities and the use of
beaches, harbours and rivers continues to change, we can expect
to see further changes in the patterns, distribution, frequency and
types of attacks in the future. Encounters with sharks, although a
rare event, will continue to occur if humans continue to enter the
ocean professionally or for recreational pursuit.
It is important to keep the risk of a shark attack in perspective.
On average, 87 people drown at Australian beaches each year
(SLSA 2010), yet there have been, on average, only 1.1 fatalities
per year from shark attack over the past two decades. It is clear
that the risk of being bitten or dying from an unprovoked shark
attack in Australia remains extremely low.

So if there's 200 in that area at that time then culling one or two trying to solve the problem is not going to make the slightest bit of difference to the survival of the species is it.
On the other hand if there's only one or two in the area then that makes it highly probable that one of them was the one that made the attack.
Either way we have little to lose and lots to gain by giving it a try.
If it turns out that we end up culling a dozen sharks over a year or two and it makes no difference then at least we have tried to do something.
Or is the life of a fish now more sacred than the life of a person?

Compare the consequences of the loss of one or two sharks to the loss of one or two or more people.
Do sharks think so highly of their friends and relatives that they have funeral services?
Do they mope around mourning for their dead?
Are their children waiting at home for a parent that wont return?
Are their parents lives destroyed because of a son that doesn't return?
Are they lying awake at 3 o'clock in the morning, terrorised by graphic thoughts going through their head.
Are they terrorised for months when the phone rings in case it's some more bad news.

It's just a fish!
A dumb unthinking fish!
Why is it that some people now seem to be afflicted with some warped logic which says that the life of a human is worth less than the life of a fish?
Where will this sort of logic end?
Why not save all the dogs that attack humans?
After all, they are man's best friend.

I think the ONLY solution,
is to cull humans.

Less humans = less shark attacks.

It's just a ****ing human,
Why is it that some people now seem to be afflicted with the warped logic which says the life of a human is worth more when it's taken by a fish, yet nobody gives a fark when somebody drowns, dies of drugs, or in a car at a race track..
When will this logic end, Cull to extinction all the Hippos in Africa? all the Tigers in India, all the GWs in the Oceans? all the Mosquitos in the tropics?

You can't go swimming in the NT because of Crocs, do we cull the crocodiles? do we worry when a tourist gets eaten? no, 'big farking deal hahah didn't they see the sign??'

If there were a million GWs in WA waters and they ate everyone that went in the water, then we erect signs telling people of the dangers.. We take responsible action, we don't eliminate a species..



Luckily there aren't a million, and the chances of being individually being nipped are exactly the same as they were 2 years ago.. Nothings changed.

When you enter the sharks domain you take a risk.... I do and many others do also.
But what's next stone fish, sting rays, jelly fish etc etc.
I will accept that the next shark that enters the human domain should be culled immediately.... we should have got em by the the time it gets to the beach side cafe or coffee shops.

if you think about it, since the protection of the big whites, the younguns may have come of age and are now going back to what they always have done.
just a thought.....

maybe equip the game fish mob to do it and form a competition for it. sick fun!