Time to cull sharks in WA

[Hawk Dork]

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I was reading the thread headline in a Kiwi accent thinking of the John Grisham book / movie.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

If you want to swim safely you swim in swimming pools, if you want to swim or surf in the ocean you take your chances of being eaten by a shark.

Stay in the pool if you don't want to be eaten by a shark, don't blame the shark if you go into their territory and they eat you, you're asking for trouble.

Or swim at netted beaches.

 

[Spitty_the_alpaca]

Wife of shark attack victim pays tribute as search ends

Paul Millachip has been identified as the 57-year-old man killed by a shark off North Fremantle’s coast on Saturday.

www.perthnow.com.au

 

[Clawed]

Wife of shark attack victim pays tribute as search ends

Paul Millachip has been identified as the 57-year-old man killed by a shark off North Fremantle’s coast on Saturday.

www.perthnow.com.au

I was eating meatloaf rapped in bacon when reading that. Why is it ok for me to est meat but animals that rely on eating meat, are not allowed to?

 

[Clawed]

Or swim at netted beaches.

If you swim at netted beaches you're killing dolphins and whales..
In Queensland crocks..

 

[Spitty_the_alpaca]

If you swim at netted beaches you're killing dolphins and whales..
In Queensland crocks..

It's Crocs and they need culling as well.

 

[Hawk Dork]

It's Crocs and they need culling as well.

wat ?

 

[Clawed]

It's Crocs and they need culling as well.

In the interests of protecting people from covid, maybe we should vaxx sharks, in case someone survives an attack, but dies of covid..

 

[mr bagcroft]

Dont swim in the ocean then.
It has served me well, all limbs intact.
Its not ****ing rocket science.

 

[phantom13]

Every year, usually just before summer some muppet does this thread.

Almost always a West Australian who will scream that we dont understand it in the eastern states.

Was a shit take the last few times it got done and its no less a shit take now.

 

[Cyber_punk]

Surfing community again in mourning after latest shark attack on SA coast

For the fourth time in 20 months, South Australia's surfing community is collectively grieving — this time after a shark attacked a 28-year-old man on the state's west coast.

www.abc.net.au

Mr Schmucker said he believed the great white population had been "exploding" ever since gillnet fishing was banned along South Australia's west coast about 15 years ago.

The latest fatal attack follows the 25th anniversary of protections being placed on great whites, after the federal government declared the species vulnerable to extinction.

In October, scientists and surfers told the ABC they wanted to know whether steps to protect the marine predators along Australia's coasts were linked to a recent wave of attacks.

The WA state government has previously rejected proposals to cull sharks in the wake of fatal attacks.

However, early last year a taskforce was formed to review current shark mitigation measures in South Australia.

It recently announced it would invest half a million dollars in initiatives aimed at reducing the likelihood of shark attacks, including procuring surveillance hubs, drones and trauma kits, as well as running education programs.

Just came across this part in the article after another fatal attack in South Australia:

I'm anti-cull but it will be interesting to see if the governments change their stance if these things happen more often going forward.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

Sharks deserve to win every now and then.
It should be taught in schools that swimming in the ocean is a risk and to be enjoyed if you survive.
Only Neanderthal English blooded fools want to cull.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Don't take our fishies we're Hangry .

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Poor sharks are just hanging out in their home

 

[errant bounce]

Good thread tbh.

Amazing how the people who go on about 'don't swim in their environment!' are people who live in land.

Bunch of pasty indoor addicts, you want to tell a parent their 16 year old daughter 'deserved to die' because she swam in the Swan River?

Also, bet all of these people who want to protect beautiful sharks shovel red meat down their gullet like it's going out of fashion. in fact, sort of people who think stuff like 'I ate two steaks to negate a vegan!!!!!' is funny.

 

[errant bounce]

Poor sharks are just hanging out in their home

Do you peacefully let out spiders? or snakes?

Urban Melburnian/Sydneysiders have such an obsession with appearing like experts on things they've never encountered.

Absolutely piss funny.

 

[rocker_oz33]

When we were over in Perth about 2 years ago.
They were telling us about bull sharks how smart and sneaky they are.
They were somewhere near where horse were and one grabbed one bye the leg.
When they going though what seemed to swallow water.

 

[errant bounce]

Every year, usually just before summer some muppet does this thread.

Almost always a West Australian who will scream that we dont understand it in the eastern states.

Was a shit take the last few times it got done and its no less a shit take now.

Victoria has the shittest beaches in the country. imagine thinking an ugly as ****, windy, yellow sanded, choppy shithole like Ocean Grove is good. **** me dead.

Victorians should admit the state is about footy, drugs, and pubs and never even try to be some sort of coastal area.

Sharks are horrible creatures.

If you're think they're beautiful you probably think Essendon born Steve Irwin is a good guy.

 

[errant bounce]

Sharks deserve to win every now and then.
It should be taught in schools that swimming in the ocean is a risk and to be enjoyed if you survive.
Only Neanderthal English blooded fools want to cull.

Schools don't teach anything these days.

And like, they kind of did say 'don't swim too far' and how to recognise a rip.

I'd like to see a big mouth bigfooty user even identify unsafe waters lol.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Victoria has the shittest beaches in the country. imagine thinking an ugly as *, windy, yellow sanded, choppy shithole like Ocean Grove is good. * me dead.

Victorians should admit the state is about footy, drugs, and pubs and never even try to be some sort of coastal area.

Sharks are horrible creatures.

If you're think they're beautiful you probably think Essendon born Steve Irwin is a good guy.

Vic beaches are fine IMO.
Your allowed to have your say .

This is not WA vs Vic thread..

 

[phantom13]

Victoria has the shittest beaches in the country. imagine thinking an ugly as *, windy, yellow sanded, choppy shithole like Ocean Grove is good. * me dead.

Victorians should admit the state is about footy, drugs, and pubs and never even try to be some sort of coastal area.

Sharks are horrible creatures.

If you're think they're beautiful you probably think Essendon born Steve Irwin is a good guy.

Well this was definitely worth bumping from just over 3 years ago.

You know the east coast isn’t just Victoria yeh?

In any event thanks for proving my point, keep doing exactly what’s expected and having a worlds leading shit take.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Do you peacefully let out spiders? or snakes?

Urban Melburnian/Sydneysiders have such an obsession with appearing like experts on things they've never encountered.

Absolutely piss funny.

Yeah I don’t kill spiders and I used to live in a snake prone suburb. As long as we left them alone they left us alone for the most part, otherwise we called the snake catcher and he’d just move them back into the bush.

 

[Shane Sheridan]

Silent Alarm's views are his own and are not representative of West Australian's as a whole.
Much rather have a people cull than a shark cull tbh

 

[Chicken Treat]

Not far fetched to say the majority opinion includes sharks in ocean waters are to be expected and people should be warned about hotspots.

I don't think many people in a state super paranoid about a Corona virus to the point there were strict hard borders to try and stop it coming in are saying that humans who get attacked "deserve it" either and there should be human culls.