The Death of a Great
Article By Thomas
Imagine this you are a shark in the deep blue ocean without a care. You swim all day long just eating fish and seals without a problem. One day you come close to shore and you bite a human then things start to turn. They start to hunt you and take you down. They bait you then take you away never to be seen again by any one. There has been major debate whether to do the shark cull or not. There are many reasons on either side to support their view but not to cull is the side to choose.
Shark culling was a controversial debate at the start but even though WA has stopped culling Queensland and NSW are still doing it. Universities have come up with statistics that show that shark culling was ineffective in the first place. They are that the amount of sharks that you will catch that are undersize and will waste money of the government. The stats where done after the first year in WA and apply for all other states.
Also the other fact is that many of the sharks that get caught are under size or the wrong type. There are only three types of sharks that can be caught and these are Great whites, Tiger sharks or Bull sharks and they have to be over three metres long. That is a waste of money when you could set up all year round shark proof nets that protect people. Tests show that people feel more confident in the nets than with drum lines out in the sea. The money wasted on the drum lines can also be put into education of young people to avoid shark problems. That also could be put into Lifeguards to watch the beaches so that they are safer overall and help save more people.
One of the major reasons is that mass people are behind the stopping of shark culling. There have been massive protests to show that people don’t want the shark cull. The entire world has heard about what we are doing and are taking action against it. This shows that even though people don’t have this problem they want it stopped none the less. The famous Sea Shepard group tried tto take this policy to court but failed they want the cull to end as soon as possible for the safety of the sharks.
The final thing is that many sharks are endangered and even the Great White is protected in commonwealth waters even in WA. By the time people get to the shark they are dead rom blood loss or lack of oxygen. They predict that they will kill 90 million sharks over three years and that is a massive lose to a vulnerable kind. The shark kind are not predicted too go extinct soon but the drum lines would decrease there numbers in the wild by a lot and may be even wipe some animals out of the wild and leave them only in captivity. Also if the shark numbers dwindle the fish population will boom bringing in more sharks from the globe which the problems will grow more.
All this shows that the shark cull is not wanted anywhere in the world. Scientific research has shown it ineffective. Also the world is against the plans for this. So they must end the Shark Cull in all places around the world no matter what the problem is. That is why the shark cull should be banned.
Shark culling was a controversial debate at the start but even though WA has stopped culling Queensland and NSW are still doing it. Universities have come up with statistics that show that shark culling was ineffective in the first place. They are that the amount of sharks that you will catch that are undersize and will waste money of the government. The stats where done after the first year in WA and apply for all other states.
Also the other fact is that many of the sharks that get caught are under size or the wrong type. There are only three types of sharks that can be caught and these are Great whites, Tiger sharks or Bull sharks and they have to be over three metres long. That is a waste of money when you could set up all year round shark proof nets that protect people. Tests show that people feel more confident in the nets than with drum lines out in the sea. The money wasted on the drum lines can also be put into education of young people to avoid shark problems. That also could be put into Lifeguards to watch the beaches so that they are safer overall and help save more people.
One of the major reasons is that mass people are behind the stopping of shark culling. There have been massive protests to show that people don’t want the shark cull. The entire world has heard about what we are doing and are taking action against it. This shows that even though people don’t have this problem they want it stopped none the less. The famous Sea Shepard group tried tto take this policy to court but failed they want the cull to end as soon as possible for the safety of the sharks.
The final thing is that many sharks are endangered and even the Great White is protected in commonwealth waters even in WA. By the time people get to the shark they are dead rom blood loss or lack of oxygen. They predict that they will kill 90 million sharks over three years and that is a massive lose to a vulnerable kind. The shark kind are not predicted too go extinct soon but the drum lines would decrease there numbers in the wild by a lot and may be even wipe some animals out of the wild and leave them only in captivity. Also if the shark numbers dwindle the fish population will boom bringing in more sharks from the globe which the problems will grow more.
All this shows that the shark cull is not wanted anywhere in the world. Scientific research has shown it ineffective. Also the world is against the plans for this. So they must end the Shark Cull in all places around the world no matter what the problem is. That is why the shark cull should be banned.