Is one Shark Attack cause enough for Culling?

Off the coast of Western Australia near Broome. A surfer was killed by a shark. It was the first fatal shark attack in about a decade in the area, but the state government wants to control the population by culling (killing at random) a quota of sharks every year. The East Coast (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne), unlike the west have nets and barriers to keep sharks away from Bondi Beach, the gold coast etc. These barriers kill more than a thousand sharks a year. Can Australia afford to cull sharks on both coasts when a healthy shark population decreases the spread of box jellyfish (the most venomous creature on earth(or at least top three)). Should it be right to make this policy when the surfer went to the beach everyday in his speedos and didn't expect the residents give him a bite eventually?

This is like culling all of the bears in Canada to keep hikers safe.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
This is like culling all of the bears in Canada to keep hikers safe.

You could understand it if the sharks were coming on land and walking into a shop and eating the workers before stealing some 1- handed art pamphlets before going back off into the sea.

But given that it's morons going into water they know sharks are in then no.

Don't kill the sharks!

****ing liberals.

Originally posted by Robtard
****ing liberals.

Liberals and conservatives should both go swimming.

Originally posted by Robtard
****ing liberals.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Liberals and conservatives should both go swimming.

But the sharks.

Originally posted by Robtard
But the sharks.

Yah, I know. Way to much fat.

The Western Australian Government has announced a $6.85 million package of what it refers to as "shark mitigation strategies". $2 million will be allocated for the Department of Fisheries to track and destroy the sharks, while another $2 million will be spent specifically tracking great whites and setting drum lines to kill them if they come too close to shore.

The great white is a well known threatened species and this plan completely goes against the federal government's White Shark Recovery Plan, which recognizes that the great white shark is fully protected in both Commonwealth and WA waters. Needlessly removing sharks from our oceans would affect the delicate balance of the marine ecosystem, which could be ecologically and economically devastating. The ocean is the shark's natural habitat and humans are not naturally aquatic mammals. This scheme would not create a long term solution to shark fatalities and tax payer's money would be better put towards increased helicopter patrols, more research and better public education about avoiding shark hazards.

^--- Got this from Kat Nelson (a writer)

How about this:

I couldn't care less about sharks, but such a measure seems pretty hysterical.

Dramatic Gecko seems like a hippy, so instinctively I want to disagree with him. But yeah, obviously, culling is a bad idea. Sharks don't even kill that many people a year relative to pretty much any other animal ever.

Originally posted by Digi
Dramatic Gecko seems like a hippy, so instinctively I want to disagree with him. But yeah, obviously, culling is a bad idea. Sharks don't even kill that many people a year relative to pretty much any other animal ever.

And I don't consider myself a hippy. I'm a realist.

Peta is about to kick some azz 😐

Nuke the sharks. They'd do the same to us if they could.

Backfire: Advocate of the strike-first policy.

Worked for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Originally posted by Dramatic Gecko
Off the coast of Western Australia near Broome. A surfer was killed by a shark. It was the first fatal shark attack in about a decade in the area, but the state government wants to control the population by culling (killing at random) a quota of sharks every year. The East Coast (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne), unlike the west have nets and barriers to keep sharks away from Bondi Beach, the gold coast etc. These barriers kill more than a thousand sharks a year. Can Australia afford to cull sharks on both coasts when a healthy shark population decreases the spread of box jellyfish (the most venomous creature on earth(or at least top three)). Should it be right to make this policy when the surfer went to the beach everyday in his speedos and didn't expect the residents give him a bite eventually?

That's...,well, just shitty. I thought there was already a huge issue with dwindling Marine life. When man goes into nature, he knows the dangers he's taking on. When nature attacks, Man should respect nature. 😂 Now, i'm not saying man shouldn't hunt or kill nature just don't go all Nazi protocol on it.