What would you say if someone of high power called for a culling on sharks? Would you be for? Or against this action? From my perspective, a culling would do nothing but lower the numbers of sharks, but not the numbers of attacks.
Good morning/afternoon Mrs. Arnold and fellow classmates. Today I would like to talk to you about the situation we have with the amount of shark attacks and fatalities. There are my main reasons for being against a culling of the shark population. Firstly, statistics show that there is no increase in fatalities, secondly sharks have both direct and indirect benefits for humans, even though sharks pose a threat to any of those who enter their domain and finally, there are solutions to keep sharks at bay.
This question of culling the sharks is not new. There are many arguments for both sides and many of them have no support to back them up. But statistics show that there is an increase in the amount of attacks, but the amount of deaths have remained average. With 2015 being a record high in shark attacks, with 98 occurring, George Burgess, the current curator at the International Shark Attack File says “…we need to make sure we understand that those 98 attacks resulted in only 6 deaths…” This shows us that even though there are many attacks on humans that have entered the sharks territory, that’s in every 16 attacks, there was 1 casualty. If people believe that sharks are hunting us, think again. Sharks can be 15 ft long, can have 50+ teeth (not including the rows of teeth that are in development) and are 2000kg in weight, if they wanted to be hunting us, I think there would be more of us hospitals than there already is. So, what type of control methods are beaches using to keep sharks away from beaches. Some are using nets, which harm not only sharks but any other ocean creature that gets stuck within them. Others are using drum lines (which are a series of buoys that are anchored to sea floor, each with a baited hook to attract the sharks), are unnecessary as it attracts not only sharks and creatures around …show more content…
They keep the seal population down, this allows plenty of fish to thrive and allows fisherman to catch and sell those fish to make their living and they also give the people of the world an experience of how sharks live and work during the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. A culling of these marine creatures is nothing unless we take into account the harm that sharks cause to humans. The amount of sharks that would need to be controlled to have an effective protection is a significantly larger number than the number of humans that would benefit from controlling the sharks population. In addition, if the culling of the sharks population was to go forward, it would only make way for a new creature to become a nuisance our beaches and feed within the oceans. Alongside that, human culling does not work like the natural culling of apex predators. Where predators go after the weak and elderly, our culling targets those that are fittest or targets those that have others depending on them. So with this kind of culling it could challenge the entire existence of the sharks that have been here for over 400 million
Good morning/afternoon Mrs. Arnold and fellow classmates. Today I would like to talk to you about the situation we have with the amount of shark attacks and fatalities. There are my main reasons for being against a culling of the shark population. Firstly, statistics show that there is no increase in fatalities, secondly sharks have both direct and indirect benefits for humans, even though sharks pose a threat to any of those who enter their domain and finally, there are solutions to keep sharks at bay.
This question of culling the sharks is not new. There are many arguments for both sides and many of them have no support to back them up. But statistics show that there is an increase in the amount of attacks, but the amount of deaths have remained average. With 2015 being a record high in shark attacks, with 98 occurring, George Burgess, the current curator at the International Shark Attack File says “…we need to make sure we understand that those 98 attacks resulted in only 6 deaths…” This shows us that even though there are many attacks on humans that have entered the sharks territory, that’s in every 16 attacks, there was 1 casualty. If people believe that sharks are hunting us, think again. Sharks can be 15 ft long, can have 50+ teeth (not including the rows of teeth that are in development) and are 2000kg in weight, if they wanted to be hunting us, I think there would be more of us hospitals than there already is. So, what type of control methods are beaches using to keep sharks away from beaches. Some are using nets, which harm not only sharks but any other ocean creature that gets stuck within them. Others are using drum lines (which are a series of buoys that are anchored to sea floor, each with a baited hook to attract the sharks), are unnecessary as it attracts not only sharks and creatures around …show more content…
They keep the seal population down, this allows plenty of fish to thrive and allows fisherman to catch and sell those fish to make their living and they also give the people of the world an experience of how sharks live and work during the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. A culling of these marine creatures is nothing unless we take into account the harm that sharks cause to humans. The amount of sharks that would need to be controlled to have an effective protection is a significantly larger number than the number of humans that would benefit from controlling the sharks population. In addition, if the culling of the sharks population was to go forward, it would only make way for a new creature to become a nuisance our beaches and feed within the oceans. Alongside that, human culling does not work like the natural culling of apex predators. Where predators go after the weak and elderly, our culling targets those that are fittest or targets those that have others depending on them. So with this kind of culling it could challenge the entire existence of the sharks that have been here for over 400 million