Should the great white shark remain a protected species?

16 Jul 2012
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The hunt is on for a 'massive' white shark that killed a 24-year-old Perth man south of Wedge Island in Western Australia. Meanwhile, the state government says that WA's reputation as the world's deadliest place for shark attacks is hurting tourism and the federal government should consider lifting the ban on fishing of great whites. What do you think?

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AB - from Riverina, 4 months ago

Sharks live in the ocean their whole lives and don't bother anyone, seals and other fish are their main diet. How can we complain when we have steadily reduced fish stocks for them to eat. (natural food) They sense something in the water and swim over and give it a taste, unfortunately when they get a taste of us its usually fatal. EASY don't go swimming at dawn and dusk, you'll be less likely to be eaten. LEAVE THEM ALONE - GOT IT!

leave the sharks alone

Helen Doye - from NORTHAM, WA, 6401, 5 months ago

If you are in his house, he will eat you. SWIM TIMES: 10am enter water after shark has had his breakfast. 4pm leave the water, it is sharks playtime and feeding. I learnt this rule as a child, it is pretty simple rule to follow. If you can't follow the rules swim in a pool.

Cull all the Cows?

LaeMing - from Wollongong, 5 months ago

Domesticated cows kill an order-of-magnitude more people in Australia each year than sharks.

Kill Them

colonial boy - from europe, 5 months ago

kill all the big ones at least, if we are part of the food chain, so are they. sell the fins to the japanese and feed the remains to the orcas. war should also be declared on bull sharks and tiger sharks. the croc population should also controlled by killing the big ones..

great white lives

shelby - from bonney lake wa, 6 months ago

great white sharks live because they are good as long as you do not hit,scream,hurt them they won`t mess with you go to 18+ft great white shark stalk boat in hD part 1 that is my father on that boat he is driving the boat.

do not kill sharks

shelby - from bonney lake wa, 6 months ago

Sharks have life and we have a life to and if we kill sharks then people want go fishing and boats and jet skis they want do any of that because sharks are amazing to see they do not come out like they have a job they do not mean to hurt people and i have been studieing sharks ever since i went fishing i saw a shark that was right next to my dads boat i said to him i want to git in the water with it myy dad said no but i did sharks do not hurt you if you hurt them then they will hurt you.

What's everyone so scared of ?

floater - from Jervis Bay, 7 months ago

The Great White isn't venemous.

everyone's gotta eat.

floater - from Jervis Bay, 7 months ago

The Great White only eats seafood, if you're in the sea, you cosequently qualify.

Is the increase in WA shark attacks a natural phenomenon?

Daniel - from Perth, 8 months ago

WA has almost overnight gone from less than 1 GWS attack per yr to 6 attacks (5 fatal) in a 10 month period. This radical increase in attacks cannot be attributable to more people entering the ocean. The WA GWS population has exploded. There are weekly confirmed sightings whereas this was once an extremely rare event. Is this really a natural occurence or have GWS fishing bans, protection of marine mammals and over-fishing resulted in this phenomenon?

Protect - stop trawlers

Walter Christy - from Shearwater, Devonport, 8 months ago

Protect them! I am sure more attacks are happening because the fish supply has been reduced greatly. The sharks are hunting more people for food even though their numbers have been reduced greatly. Sharks are hunted for their fins for “Chinese fin soup”, almost crushing the shark population. We at the moment have the FV Margaris that wants to trawl Australian waters taking more fish from the seas leaving other fish life with less food to eat and this goes up the chain to sharks. Stop trawlers!

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