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Hunt the Great White?
updated: Oct 24, 2012, 7:47 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

What do you think now that a Great White has killed someone? Should local fisherman/sportsman have the right to hunt it?

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COMMENT 335399	2012-10-24 08:10 PM
yes
COMMENT 335414	2012-10-24 08:54 PM
Yes with a 50 caliber.
COMMENT 335418P	2012-10-24 09:47 PM
Definitely. If they kill and eat us we have the right to kill and eat them.. Fair is fair.
COMMENT 335419P	2012-10-24 11:30 PM
....maybe just a test bite
COMMENT 335443	2012-10-25 07:01 AM
No! If there was no right to hunt it before, why would there be a right to hunt it now? It had no intention to hurt, to get a mouthful of surfboard and kill the riding human. I wonder if there is any research showing what does not attract Great Whites: are they color sensitive, for instance? A white surfboard probably looks like the underbelly of a seal; what about red? Or yellow? Or?
COMMENT 335458	2012-10-25 07:36 AM
Usually the shark mistakes the surfer as a fat tasty seal. They rarely eat the person, but spit them out. To declare open season on sharks is knee jerk lunacy.
COMMENT 335482	2012-10-25 08:39 AM
How about the DUI driver that kills someone ??? Kill them too ??
COMMENT 335486	2012-10-25 08:45 AM
Ok 482 Then we will just cage them for a long period of time.
COMMENT 335491	2012-10-25 08:55 AM
If so, what criteria would be used to ensure it was the same shark? I'll never get the human impulse to immediately kill something that they don't understand or fear irrationally. All species of sharks are already in severe danger of becoming extinct from the barbaric practice of "finning" primarily by Japanese fishermen to make shark fin soup along with the number of sharks killed as by-catch or die when trapped by long lines or nets. How about we try to leave the ocean's creatures alone and just go about our own lives?
COMMENT 335507	2012-10-25 09:50 AM
Only if we get to hunt and kill everything else that kills humans....like other humans.
COMMENT 335509	2012-10-25 09:57 AM
The dept. of fish and game has made It illegal to fish for or take white sharks. People wanted more seals on the beach, this is what you get when you create a huge food source for the sharks. It will happen again.
COMMENT 335512	2012-10-25 10:08 AM
I've heard that in Australia they have nets, maybe we should consider getting some out by the buoys. People know the dangers of the waters, it's not the sharks fault.
COMMENT 335538	2012-10-25 11:25 AM
seals have white bellies? never seen that.
COMMENT 335584	2012-10-25 02:08 PM
It's pretty common in Hawaii to go get the shark afterwards...don't want them thinking it can go unpunished, I s'pose.
COMMENT 335587	2012-10-25 02:16 PM
584 - That is absurd. Would we be teaching other sharks a "lesson" by hunting down the shark? I don't think so.
COMMENT 335910	2012-10-26 01:01 PM
In Hawaii is works better than here because the Tiger sharks that do most of the attacks there are territorial and can be found in the same area. So if you go hunting in an area after an attack there is more chance that you will actually kill the shark that did the attack. Great whites travel great distances so the chances that you will find and kill the attack shark is much smaller. I grew up in Hawaii from 1958 to 1973 and never heard of any shark attacks during that time. The story I remember is that the son of a rich family was killed by a shark and the family paid a bounty for every shark brought in by fishermen for several years after that. That decreased the shark population for a long time to the point that attacks didn't start happening until after I left the islands. Never saw a turtle the whole time I lived there either. Now you can see them in lots of places.

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