Are Great Whites in abundance or clinging to survival? New study plans to find out!
Are you as perplexed by the surge of Great Whites in the surf, and the arguments for and against solving the problem, as me?
Nets and dangling hooks are terrible things (they kill so many friendly animals), but they work. Compare and contrast attacks in Ballina with the Gold Coast. (Zero on the GC.)
The ocean is the shark’s environment, but it’s a pleasant place for humans to frolic in, too.
The Great White is endangered various scientific bodies say, but attacks are more relevant than ever before in human history.
For me, the argument has to boil down to this. If the Great White is endangered, y’can’t kill ’em. We live (and die) with it until stocks are replenished. Then we ice a few to restore the balance.
But if they’re not endangered.
Well.
So we gotta count ’em, right? Put the issue to bed once and for all.
A few days ago, the Australian government announced it had given its scientific body CSIRO the task of counting Whites in their east coast nurseries (Newcastle to Seal Rocks) and to use that data to estimate the population on the west coast.
Even though the Great White has been protected in Australia since 1999, experts concede they don’t know how many of the animals live in Australian waters.
I wonder, are we imagining ourselves sick about the Great White or is there a current oversupply of the animal?
The study will be complete by December.
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hard to keep track but at least 8 white sharks tagged in the last 2days between Foster and Ballina.
Including one where I was surfing solo yesterday.
I’d say over-supply.
Just tell the asians that white shark makes your dick hard. Problem solved.
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So which ones do we cull, the mommas or the juveniles or both , and as GWS have been tracked coming from South Africa to the great barrier reef , should it be a global effort based on the Australian findings , what if there has been a decrease ?
I think, if a decrease, protect some more!
I like your thinking , but when will we have to legislate to protect the surfers ?
GWS tracked from South Africa? Are you sure you aren’t mixed up with the other expansion team who have been tracked from Shanghai to Alice Springs before heading home to the Gold Coast?
If we could just get a few of the Noahs to join Facebook / Instagram, then pretty soon we could pretty much know everything about them.
I wonder what a Great White’s ‘duckface’ looks like?
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Would you hit that?
The bleeding hearts will continue crying for the big, cuddly misunderstood fish even if they decide that they aren’t threatened.
I’ve been thinking about this. The only way to make the count accurate is to make sure you don’t count them twice. The only way to do this is to keep the one you counted in the freezer, so it could actually be a good thing for surfers. Once they’ve completed the Great White census, the need to do one of bulls, and then Tigers.
can we expect a tour notes, freezer shark edition?
Maybe I’ve got this wrong, but they’re gonna count how many sharks there are at a nursery, where there should be the most sharks at any given moment, then average it all out. Am I missing the logic on that? Serious
I don’t think that is true. The majority of people aren’t extremists.
True, but the extremists are often the loudest voices.
Ah, what a fucking waste of money, they could just ask PK! Fucking science bullshit!
LOL