Should sharks be killed to make our beaches safer?

Question

Thank you for your help, needed some opinions for an essay.

p.s. Obviously I believe that sharks should not be killed to make our beaches safer.

Answer 1

no.

Answer 2

I think we should kill some humans to make the animals safer.

Answer 3

eliminate the people on the beaches so as its safer for the sharks

Answer 4

The beaches are safe. When u enter the water u r entering the domain of a successfully adapted 100 million year old predator. If you are unlucky enough to encounter a great white you may be killed. (actually great whites prefer the taste of seal and will spit humans out having first dismembered them). We should respect, value and conserve our wild animals.The world would be poorer if we extermin8ed them for our own perceived safety.

What would be next? extermin8ing tigers in their jungle habitat or lions and rhinos in the savannah? We are far more at risk from ourselves due to (self induced) famine and war than any threat from natural causes.

Answer 5

I live in England and as such sharks arent a particular threat.Indeed they are less of a threat than "ethnic minority" knife wielding teenagers in london.

I dont fancy the idea of slaughtering wildlife unless its for food.

However,if a shark is a persistant threat to a particular beach then it should end up on a plate.

Answer 6

You can't just go round killing things because there's a very slight chance one might kill you!!  That's ridiculous.

Answer 7

No, They shouldn't.  They have been around millions of years before us and we shouldn't kill them.  Were taking a gamble by going into their environment.  Live with it.

Answer 8

Yup - they should be erradicated as a species so we can all go and splosh about to our hearts content without needing to count our legs when we get out of the sea!

Answer 9

yup.

Answer 10

No! the ocean was theirs first, they don't come on land and bother us-leave them alone!!

Answer 11

That is ridiculous.  Obviously you are not an environmentalist.  I spoke about this issue with a shark and he said sharks thought humans should be killed for trespassing and polluting their habitat.

Answer 12

No.    Why kill off a species when the number of fatalities per year are so small.      Most popular beaches have lifeguards and watchtowers, and most deaths occur at remote areas where risk taking surfies go.

Answer 13

No! Nobody gave us that  right exclusive. If we have a  right to the beaches they  have a stronger right  to the waters. It's  we who intrude. Nature  will take care of  the shark  population increase as happened  for milleniums. If we are starving I can understand and also agree to killing  the shark as a means of self survival which right the shark too is entitled to. Do you agree to a super alien's right to kill primitives like us for food, fun or  grabbing our world?

Surely we can identify  a  method with our superior knowlege  to  chase the sharks away from the beaches ?

Answer 14

No, but people as dumb as you should be aborted!

Answer 15

NO!

coz,wat will happen to the food chain?

i think the number of shark attacks can be rapidly decreased by putting more beach guards on patrol.

Answer 16

whose beaches??

Typical human response - don't understand, can't think of anything intelligent - let's kill it

Answer 17

No! If anything, humans should be killed to make the sharks' oceans safer.

Answer 18

Might as well. Apart from criminal masterminds keeping them in pools to eliminate secret agents, I can see no other use for them.

Answer 19

Killing any sharks found in a particular area, with the intention of protecting a given beach; is counterproductive and somewhat ignorant. Not only does it upset a natural balance, but might even attract more dangerous sharks to an area. This is because the foodchain will always need an apex.

Killing sharks in this manner is, more importantly, ignorant in the same way that burning villages is to stop a rebel uprising. There are better and subtler ways of achieving the objective.

HOWEVER, that said, it is my firm belief that maneaters need killing. Not for any emotional reason, but because they tend to repeat the offence. Once they are desperate enough take humans for food from a popular beach, they quickly realise how easy it is.

Where I live, people get killed by sharks in all the normal ways. Either mistakes or an exhausted illegal immigrant swimming across the bay. These are extremely rare occurrences.

But we have had six incidents over a two year period of tigersharks hunting early morning swimmers. With five deaths. These occurred within a two week period at the start of consecutive summers at the same beaches. It was the same shark, or two acting together. The were hunted but never caught, it is suspected that the activity in the area following the attacks made them move on.

The best protection against shark attack is firstly a healthy eco-system (most sharks are harmless and the dangerous ones should live naturally away from man), and secondly a common-sense approach to sea activity (swim with friends during the day, in clear water).

It is slightly dangerous to see sharks hunting mackerel around bathers only because people and sharks are more likely to come into contact. If you believe that this is too dangerous, swim at a beach with a shark net. Killing those well behaved sharks would have unknown repurcussions on the ecosystem, possibly encouraging more aggressive species.

Answer 20

I assume you're only hoping to get a lot of rants here.  You're smart enough to type, so you can't be dumb enough to actually believe what you asked.

More people are killed falling off of ladders every year than by sharks.  WAY more people are killed on the way to or from the beach in cars, and, in the last 50 years, more people have been killed in plane crashes on their way to vacation on a beach or on their way home than have been killed by sharks in that time period.