Rogue sharks will be killed

[ozdevil]

Rogue sharks will be killed
By CATHERINE HOCKLEY
22nov02
GOVERNMENT officers will be given the power to kill sharks that pose a threat to people.

The authorisation to kill will be given to police, fisheries and National Parks and Wildlife South Australia officers.

The move is aimed primarily at the great white shark, which is otherwise protected as an endangered species.

To reduce the threat of sharks moving into coastal waters, the use of berley – offal or oil used to attract sharks – will be restricted.

Cage dive charters will also be banned in some areas.

Fisheries Minister Paul Holloway, who announced the changes yesterday, warned that any member of the public attempting to kill sharks would be prosecuted.

Professional fishermen on the West Coast have campaigned for the right to kill dangerous sharks after scallop diver Paul Buckland was taken by a six-metre white pointer off Smoky Bay in April.

Mr Buckland's brother David, an abalone diver, said yesterday fishermen should also be authorised to kill sharks that pose a risk.

"The Government should be using professional fishers to do this," he said.

"They are on the ground.

"They can destroy the shark straight away rather than waiting 24 hours for fisheries officers to find the shark."

Mr Buckland said fishermen were lobbying to have great white sharks delisted as a protected species.

West Coast Professional Fishermen's Association president Allan Suter said the changes to the Great White Shark Management and Response Plan were "a step in the right direction".

Under changes to the management and response plan, cage dive charters around the Sir Joseph Banks group of islands have been banned.

Mr Holloway said permission to berley would be granted only to operators licensed by the Department for Environment and Heritage to conduct shark viewing and tagging in the Neptune Island Conservation Park.

Gday All

Well i would just like to ask one question as i think this an outrageous deciscion...

how do you identify a rogue shark to a non rogue shark?

now do we kill all shark that come in close to shoreline cos they are a possible threat to humans..i just think its a call for open slather of killing of the white pointer becuase they may or may not hold a threat to our society....

cheers
ozdevil

[jaybee]

hey oz
I think the biggest problems started after the movie jaws, and charter operators started chumming up the whites so people could pay big dollars to dive with them, guess the sharks are still coming back looking for a free feed. If they werent a necessary part of the food chain they wouldnt be there in the first place.
cheers.

[fishsmith]

How dare animals eat us, its not on!


The way I look at it is that if where in there territory/domain.Then we cant blame them for acting as they would naturally act, and see us as just another source of food.. Same goes for the Cocadile of Northern Australia..

Cheers Smithy...

[fishsmith]

How dare animals eat us, its not on!


The way I look at it is that if where in there territory/domain.Then we cant blame them for acting as they would naturally act, and see us as just another source of food.. Same goes for the Crocodile of Northern Australia..

Cheers Smithy...

[clutter]

Vic Hislop made a point many years ago about the use of berley when viewing sharks. Point being that these big creatures come sniffing the scent of blood which means food to them and only find nothing but see human figures looking at them from outside the water. After a while of this happening they would probably associate the human shape with the smell of food to the extent that when they see someone in the water they think food and have a go at it.
Seems a sound enough theory and one I tend to agree with.

Clutter

[mackmauler]

This poor little innocent mactuna was attacked for no reason, a senseless crime which has shocked the bay community

[Jewmaster]

The one problem with crocadiles is that they don;t limit themselves to the water or a set area, No need to kill them, especially the recent one that was killed for eating the tourist that was swimming in its home.

Some crocs go rouge and will walk a fiar way from the water to snatch cattle dogs ect and they should be moved to a farm or at worste destroyed, but if we wander into there hunting ground, bad luck to us, really bad luck.

The one that was killed for the german tourist could have been a mistake, they went to the billabong the next day and shot the croc that had the tourist in its mouth, It could have been passed arounf several crocs fighting for the feed and the one that ended up with it may not have killed the tourist. I feel very sorry for the family, but no water in the NT is safe. The guide who took them out is being charged..... not too sure about that either, if he said it was safe to stick your head in a oven would you...

We don;t have problems with Big sharks up here attacking people, there is still plenty of food in the food chain, maybe the pro fisherman should look at why the sharks need to eat people, maybe its a lack of their natural food

[jack_attack]

I think it is ridiculous. Sharks can not eat you if you don't go in the water.

[Silver_RX]

Absolutely insane. I will have to agree with ozdevil. How do you tell them apart? "Excuse me mr/mrs shark but are you a rouge??" I don't think so. If you go swiming in the ocean you have to keep in the back of your mind that there are things there that can eat you. Just as if you were in Africa and a lion decides you look tasty. Wrong place, wrong time and lack of a brain may land you in the situation. I think alot of people should be shot because they kill people but I don't see the government letting me mount a 9mm machine gun on the bonnet of my car.
Absolutely stupid, aren't they protected for a reason.
"Don't destroy what you came to enjoy"

[J_Large]

cage diving is like a tin of sardines. eventually the can will open and the food will be released.

i wonder how long it will take until this actually happens in cage diving. i think it should be stopped all together..

it's a big tease to the shark.. how would u like it if you were put behind bars and food was just out of arms reach... you'd be mighty pissed off i'd say.

I Say ban all shark cage diving.

[Vern_Veitch]

I agree with all the above. Just imagine if the same obsessive people who drew up ths proposal were to look seriously at our national road toll. Shoot all car drivers who might cause an accident that could kill someone? What about light aircraft? Anyone for banning push bikes? And lookout for the demon drink. If it doesn't get you on the road, it will rot your liver eventually. Better ban that as well. Coke is probably worse again.
There are more people killed in Australia each year by snake bite, and bee stings than sharks and crocodiles combined.
Where do we stop?
Vern

[angelena]

I lived in S.A for a while a few years back and the same thing was being talked about down there. I met a lady whos brother for a job fixed tuna cages and said a day didn't go by that he wouldn't see a great white and they never bothered him. the stupid thing about all this is in Port lincoln they put heaps of tuna cages less than 5km from the main swimming beach. so in my way of thinking having all this food locked up is just teasing them and then they see a beach full of food what do you think they'll do. I agree with all the previous comments as well. hey maybe the way to tell a rogue shark is by the piercings and tats and i sure haven't seen one of them.