It must be said that there also is a reality; In many areas where shark attacks are increasing, They put the sharks on a protective list, however do nothing about the massive negative impact commercial fishing has on their food source. The fact is there are more and more sharks "eating" people rather than just biting and the reality is we are food. It would be no different if we were in the bush between a lions. It stuns me when you read in papers "shark attach what went wrong?" let’s face it, nothing went wrong they are doing exactly what nature indented. It is unfortunately a double sided sword; the more we "promote" sharks are docile creatures, the more people get in the ocean without caution, the more people get "attacked" and unfortunately the more reason some get to slaughter the sharks. My solution is stop commercial fishing, ban the selling of fish and give anyone that wants fish a speargun. Let us meet them at their level if we want food. Then it is a fair advantage. I mean this with upmost respect; Stop saying sharks are “docile” animals that confuses us with seals. Great whites are responsible for the most attacks on humans, then the Tiger sharks and so forth. It is a size thing; sharks understand, most of the time, don’t byte of more than you can chew. A great white will attack anything smaller than 50 to 60% of its own body size. Unlikely to see it taking on a Orca or a 1000kg blue fin tuna. Don’t get me wrong, any animal in the ocean does have first preference to what comes natural to it. Just the other day I was watching a life card feeding fish with bread in a tidal pool, while I was collecting mussels on the rocks. They where, with no particular “aggression” going at the bread. However the moment I chucked a mussel in the water that broke while attempting to loosen it from the rocks, they went mad! There where species coming from the woodwork trying to get a piece of this mussel. While there were still mussel left to eat there was not a single fish on the bread still floating on the water. I love sharks and all nature has given us! We are privileged to be part of this “Mechanism” of life however, and I know I am going against the grain by saying this but, I think that although we do attempted to create excuses to avoid people from killing sharks it is an insult and simply degrading calling sharks docile and “simple” creatures. They are exactly what nature intended. I can assure you that if we could successfully separate man and sharks we would. We did it with lions and other aggressive species. Humans accepted a long time ago that lions are lions and that do what lions where intended to do. Like in the ocean there are many places in Africa where man and lion life “side by side” and every once and so while someone gets eaten. They do keep their distance most of the time but when you are hungry you are hungry even if is Sipho Nhlovo from the Mhlakaka Village riding his bike from the market. My solution is, if you have money to campaign, campaign against commercial fishing. The people that would lose their jobs if they should ban commercial fishing would just learn to make a living somewhere else. Get the problem at its core. Recently they have called to kill something like a hundred sharks is some area due to one shark attack. First look and see if there has not been any over fishing in the area. “the problem is not the problem, it is your attitude towards the problem” – Jack sparrow Anyway, nuf said! CATCH you later! ;)
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 04:14:53 +0000
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