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Apr 18th, 2017 at 6:37pm
 
The apex predator of the oceans need to be culled, in particular the great white. Every other fish is being taken out of the oceans but these monsters are protected, surfers are being eaten left right and center and it is no wonder.
I declare open season on these fish.
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Reply #1 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 6:57pm
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


when they grow legs and run up the b each I might agree with you..
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Reply #2 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 6:59pm
 
I have been attacked by a shark. A gummy shark.

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Reply #3 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 7:20pm
 
Gummy shark is tasty, but not the porno version the gold top mushroom eater refers to, sports bet is odds on another surfer will be eaten within the week.
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Reply #4 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 7:33pm
 
The poor things are simply doing what comes naturally.

Besides how many people die from shark attack each year?

A hell of a lot less than from terrorism.

Now there is an idea, cull the CULT

CULL THE CULT, CULL THE CULT, CULL THE CULT.

Makes quite a good chant dont it?
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Reply #5 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 7:54pm
 
What that family in Esperance has just gone through is unfathomable Sad

I was in the surf today for 2 hours today with firstborn and one of her mates and I was shitting myself every time they got more than 5 meters away from me.

As for culling, nah, there's always more fish in the sea.

I do support netting the busiest swimming beaches.
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Reply #6 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 8:07pm
 
Gordon wrote on Apr 18th, 2017 at 7:54pm:
What that family in Esperance has just gone through is unfathomable Sad

I was in the surf today for 2 hours today with firstborn and one of her mates and I was shitting myself every time they got more than 5 meters away from me.

As for culling, nah, there's always more fish in the sea.

I do support netting the busiest swimming beaches.

A bit wishy washy their Gordon, look after your own with nets, not to many pointers around your way anyway.
Plenty of fish, no.
If your going out in the water just enjoy, if you worry about sharks they will sense fear and eat you.
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Reply #7 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 8:17pm
 
Johnnie wrote on Apr 18th, 2017 at 8:07pm:
Gordon wrote on Apr 18th, 2017 at 7:54pm:
What that family in Esperance has just gone through is unfathomable Sad

I was in the surf today for 2 hours today with firstborn and one of her mates and I was shitting myself every time they got more than 5 meters away from me.

As for culling, nah, there's always more fish in the sea.

I do support netting the busiest swimming beaches.

A bit wishy washy their Gordon, look after your own with nets, not to many pointers around your way anyway.
Plenty of fish, no.
If your going out in the water just enjoy, if you worry about sharks they will sense fear and eat you.


Netting beaches in high density population areas makes sense.  Mass culling of sharks doesn't.

Before too long there will be drones above all beaches that use software to detect sharks a few meters under water and sound an alarm, maybe directly to a surfers watch
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Reply #8 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 8:18pm
 
Why is there no talk of putting GWS back on the catch list ... say with a system like with snapper in some areas. Take sharks between a certain size, eg 10' to 14'

I've been surfing for 35yrs, mostly in some of the most shark infested waters in Australia, and the world for that matter. Lost 4 good mates to GW attacks and one mate has survived an attack ... had a few close calls myself ... I think culling is a hoax myself, especially now we have a healthy, and building population of GWS.
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Reply #9 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 8:50pm
 
fezz wrote on Apr 18th, 2017 at 8:18pm:
Why is there no talk of putting GWS back on the catch list ... say with a system like with snapper in some areas. Take sharks between a certain size, eg 10' to 14'

I've been surfing for 35yrs, mostly in some of the most shark infested waters in Australia, and the world for that matter. Lost 4 good mates to GW attacks and one mate has survived an attack ... had a few close calls myself ... I think culling is a hoax myself, especially now we have a healthy, and building population of GWS.

Big sharks have to much mercury so fishermen don't want them, it has to be a cull, again I say we cant take all other fish and protect the pointer, how many surfers have to be eaten before the fisheries department do something.
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Reply #10 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 10:35pm
 
Johnnie wrote on Apr 18th, 2017 at 8:50pm:
fezz wrote on Apr 18th, 2017 at 8:18pm:
Why is there no talk of putting GWS back on the catch list ... say with a system like with snapper in some areas. Take sharks between a certain size, eg 10' to 14'

I've been surfing for 35yrs, mostly in some of the most shark infested waters in Australia, and the world for that matter. Lost 4 good mates to GW attacks and one mate has survived an attack ... had a few close calls myself ... I think culling is a hoax myself, especially now we have a healthy, and building population of GWS.


Big sharks have to much mercury so fishermen don't want them, it has to be a cull, again I say we cant take all other fish and protect the pointer, how many surfers have to be eaten before the fisheries department do something.


You do know what fisherman want to use sharks this size for don't you? And do you realise how many are already caught by long liners as bycatch but can't be legally used, even though they do get used out in the open ocean away from prying eyes?  Give you a tip, swordfish love a bit of GW.

Culling has never worked and will never work with an ocean species in the big, wide ocean ... it might work for roos and goats and buffalo etc on a two dimensional plane but not in a three dimensional habitat that is the ocean.
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Reply #11 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 10:39pm
 
I guess culling also comes down to personal beliefs ... the view of manifest destiny or not.
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Reply #12 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 11:06pm
 
Nobody really definitively knows why sharks attacks are on the rise of late , nor why they're coming so close to shore  Undecided

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Reply #13 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 11:25pm
 
More sharks - more attacks.

I agree with the English lady with whom I discussed this - she said:-

"When I think of sharks, I think of fish and chips."
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Reply #14 - Apr 18th, 2017 at 11:46pm
 
Surely netting can be designed that would cut down on the number of other sea creatures trapped ...
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