An American man was killed while diving off a boat into the Australian waters this past Saturday. This has been the third, fatal human attack in recent weeks. Now shark hunters are gathering together to catch the shark or sharks that have been causing these attacks. Marine experts doubt that a shark caused all three attacks. Amy Wilkes, a marine biologist, has said, "The idea that a shark, once it has tasted human blood, would continue to attack is just completely false. That's not that way it would work." Others say the attacks happened due to people being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Still, people have been refusing to go swimming in those waters since the attacks. Now the Western Australia state government is taking the matter into their own hands and they're using tuna-baited hooks to catch these predators. Others are against this action saying that great whites are already endangered and we should work to preserve their existence, instead of pushing it towards extinction.
My View:
Seeing the chain of actions, I can see why the government is taking such drastic measures. They know that is tourists are scared enough, they won't come to the beaches and thus, the state won't make as much money off of tourism. I still don't agree with them going after these endangered animals because people have been working for many years in order to keep these animals reproducing and safe. Killing sharks who may or may not be the attackers in simply ridiculous. Not only is this depopulating the great white population, it also proves that people are starting to care less and less about the environment and more about keeping revenue up.
http://gma.yahoo.com/texas-man-george-thomas-wainwright-killed-great-white-025609558.html
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