Gets real here now

I don’t like the idea of culling the sharks or the seals. How about relocating the seals to other parts of the world to spread them out? Too unrealistic?

 

do you like taxes?

 

How do you mean?

 

I would guess that relocation of a species would cost a lot more than culling of a species. just like it's easier to take out a squirrel fuggin with your bird feeder than it is to have some dude come in and trap it and then go let it loose on a gulf course 15 miles away.

for moving mass quantities of seals - in taxachussetts there's one easy way to pay for that.

btw - humanely, I don't disagree with you.

 

I see your point. I guess sometimes doing the right thing has a higher financial burden than doing simply what is expedient at the time. That said, it doesn’t necessarily have to be paid for solely with tax payer dollars.

Maybe a portion can be paid via taxation, but the rest maybe could be paid for by donations and organizational contributions. Maybe create a foundation where people can donate to the cause. Shoot, look at the countless silly GoFundme accounts that exist. One could be made for something actually useful and it would benefit not only the countless people who frequent those beaches, but also would benefit the wild life by not simply killing them in mass quantities.

I just don’t think culling is the right thing to do. I would however be OK with taking the GW’s off the endangered species list and allow non-commercial fisherman to catch them, maybe regulate how many they are allowed to bag per season like they do with alligators and other game.

 

If it were realistic, perhaps using fish baited retired troop carriers, Greenland would be a fine new home.

As YP said, I'd be for a humane way to deal with them. Plausibility and cost are unknown right now.

 

Dude that was a solid solid solid point about the gofundme thing. The guy from blink 182 raised millions for alien research type thing. His own company. Im impressed with that idea. Good thinking

 

Thanks brother, just trying to think outside the box.

 

Maybe they don't know and don't care?...i mean sharks are found with things like rubber car tires, license plates, and video cameras in their bellies. Not sure they have a very discriminative palate, or memory for that matter.

 

Now we're getting somewhere... Just like the Afgan army we should arm and train them.
Maybe if we put IEDs on all seals so that every time a shark hits one it explodes. We'd trim the shark population, but we can blame the seals. And the sharks will eventually move out

 

shark attacks are still pretty rare and fatalities are really low.culling the sharks on the northeast,i don't think that's a good idea.a place like reunion island where u get bit 3 minutes into the ocean yea,kill off the bulls.but great whites are majestic creatures lol.its just an unfortunate situation,nothing we can really do aboot it.

I don't even know where this attack took place but im guessin cape cod,and probably a great white.they always been around,and im guessing population was a lot higher back in the 70s and 80s.only difference is theres more people in the water.i just think about someone like Kelly slater,hes probably got more water time in than all of us combined lol,and he never got bit,along with the millions of other surfers

 

Yeah, and Mick Fanning kicked a GW’s ass!!!

 

This may come off as ignorant, in which case it wouldn't be the first time & in which you guys will launch, but I just gotta say that Hunter S. Thompson's quote nails it for me, "When you enter the ocean you're no longer at the top of the food chain."

It seems that some people want to make the ocean into a version of Disneyland. Every time (rare) there is an ocean creature mauling a human there is this massive hue & cry about 'OMG how could that be allowed to happen?!?!' The human reaction is nutso de facto, driven by emotion not by reality. The ocean is a wild place. It is there for a reason, and, sorry, that primary reason isn't human recreational activities.

It's their home. They are integral to the eco system that one species, the human virus, is destroying at an exponential rate. We're out there farting around on boats, fibreglas toys, syrofoam toys, etc. What do you THINK is going to happen once in awhile?

And I'm ok with bears & mountain lions taking out the occasional dumbass human. Again, we are the invaders. I do not agree with the thinking that says humans have the ordained right to go do anything anywhere. We've seen that lead to the planet's demise on a global scale.

Anyone who has had to endure the sordid & grotesque pollutant behavior of the Pennsyltucky asshats at TPTSNBN every summer may just vote for culling or restricting humans.