Shark Attack

[shan]

How dare they hunt down the sharks who killed that surfer, that were only doing what a shark does naturally? They have no choice but to be in the sea, it's where they live!!!  :evil:

[jock]

I agree totally ..it makes me sick when i see footage of people killing sharks or tigers when all they are doing is what comes naturally to them .

there supermarkets are the ocean or forests  , they kill for food , its just the way it is, and by killing a shark or any ther animal which has killed a human doesnt make the problem go away or make things any better .
 
 if you live in australia or in warm climates  STAY OUT THE WATER ! if you dont want to run the risk of being eaten .

[shan]

Exactly Jock, humans invade THEIR territory and when they defend it they get hunted down - human B******S!

Judging by their own standards methinks..

[Alan]

Unfortunately the market for shark fin soup is massive in Asia, and as people get richer out there they demand more of it.... This is a major course of their decline...


Alan

[Dixi]

I read somewhere that the brother of the guy who was killed spoke out against the sharks being hunted and killed. I hope the authorities listened to him.

Bringing Asia into it, if the animal, fish, mammal, insect etc is alive and preferably endangered those people will eat it. Instead of wasting millions on fleets of new vehicles every year the UN should spend it on educating the populations of the poorer countries in the region. Japan and China should be shamed into doing something and if that fails economic sanctions should be introduced against them.

[Alan]

Some good news here, although 'scientific' catches continue. Japan, and Norway are rich countries so I have no sympathy for their case. Once the UK was the biggest hunter of whales and we have been able to move on and so I see no reason why they shouldn't too:

Small victory for a big mammal (The Times 20/7/04)
By Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent
 
JAPAN lost the opening battle of its latest campaign to lift an 18-year ban on commercial whaling yesterday when the International Whaling Commission narrowly rejected a proposal to allow its members to vote in secret.

A Japanese motion to bring in secret ballots was defeated at the commission’s annual meeting. A majority of its 57 members are now unlikely to vote to overturn the ban.

Conservationists said that secret votes at the meeting in Sorrento, Italy, would have allowed countries to oppose whaling in public while making clandestine deals to allow hunting to resume. However, Susan Lieberman, of the charity WWF, predicted that the majority against commercial whaling could be as slim as one vote.

Japan, which has long sought to lift the moratorium on commercial whaling imposed in 1986, has been widely accused of buying support at the commission by granting generous aid to developing countries that have joined it and voted with Tokyo.

Tuvalu, Mauritania and Surinam, which joined the commission this year, supported the Japanese motion and are expected to back an end to the ban this week.

Japan, where whale meat and sushi are delicacies, kills about 440 minke whales a year under its “scientific whaling programme”, the meat from which supplies a £27 million market.

Tokyo wants to introduce a system of sustainable quotas that would allow it to catch almost 3,000 minke whales in the Southern Ocean. It has threatened to leave the commission and to begin hunting unilaterally if its demands are not met.