Lots of valid views and opinions and mine is by no means the right one. I wonder how many of you have young kids clocking up big hours in the water? And just because I do does't mean that its right but I cant even comprehend moving back to WA as I could never let my kids spend the time in the water that I did when I was growing up in Cott.
Again its only an opinion to consider in balanced coversation on the topic.
www.theaustralian.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes
Not aware of drum lines being used in South Africa - but they use nets in Durban. There are solutions out there, kelp-forest nets have been tested here and keep the sharks out without harming anyone, but costly to put in and maintain. Local guy here has come up with a virtually for free solution, he is trying to patent it, but it's too easy to copy and will probably be impossible for him to uphold - we're just waiting for him to give the word so we can share the solution....it's so brilliantly simple that it's a shame he'll probably never earn a cent of it......
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-02/shark-alert/5233148
Looks like they need to run the drum lines 100m off the beach rather than the 1km that they currently are :)
Not to many Lions roaming the streets of Jo-Berg , not many roaming the plains either , hysterical people have nearly wiped them out alsoWho,s being hysterical those that want to protect , or those that want to fell safe geez havent you watched the lion king circle of life and all that
www.foxnews.com/science/dwindling-shark-population-worldwide-affects-ocean-ecosystem
Yeah let's target wa tiger sharks.
By the way, the meaning of cull is to reduce the population of a wild animal by selective slaughter.
I guess the only way it's not a cull is that it's not selective slaughter when we can't be selective what drowns on them over night.
Such as undersized tiger sharks... Or were they bull sharks;)
Not that it matters what anyone calls it really.
We were so smart 50 years ago when we put out lines on the east coast that we still thought it was ok to hunt whales! Oh wait. We humans still do that. Damn!
Hahahaha to funny.. South Africa weighing in on the subject ..they need to clean their backyard up before starting on ours.
Ha ha 10 000 regular water users. I wish! more like 200 000. What a crock of ....
I was attacked at Mullaloo when 15 (1978) lucky just board bitten. They are out there no point worrying about it. Had a great weekend teaching the lids to kite :) 11 year old ended up a k out lucky he did not get hooked up ha ha.
Real positive of the media beat up is less surfers in the water. Gotta love it
Here's another solution - human managed and non-intrusive....http://www.sharkex.com/shark-repellent/
I've never really considered myself a greenie - but with a number of proven alternatives (kelp-nets, sharkspotters, electric shark-devices, sharkex and common sense) available, as opposed to just going out and killing off random members of an endangered species, I'm with the greenies on this one.