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Should killer sharks be killed.

Should killer sharks be killed?

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I don't see any point in retaliation against animals. I have no problem with killing any animal that attacks you, menaces you, or even gets in your way-- but going out to hunt down one specific animal for something it may have done is just stupid.
 
Yes but we need to be killing the nation's #1 threat, cocaine snorting bears:

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No, definitely not. The shark is only doing what it's programmed to do, and it's not like killing that shark is going to prevent other sharks from attacking people.
 
spud_meister said:
in light of a man being killed by a shark and the subsequent hunt for the shark, do you think that, if they manage to find this one shark out of many, this shark should be killed, and do you think sharks should be killed if they attack?
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**** that shark. Kill it. Kill it dead and then kill it again.
 
I don't go lookin' for sharks to kill. I have so much time allowed to me on the water so I spend it more wisely. I look at sharks more of a pest, like a jellyfish, 'cuda, stingray, and an assortment of other spiny creatures of the deep. Since we can only keep one shark per boat, I usually just chum the water with the others I have the misfortune to hook into.

I can be catching fish right and left and all of a sudden it suddenly stops. Next thing you know. ZZZZzzzzzzzzz... the drag is SCREAMING! Another godamn shark. A 4 foot shark fights like a 10 foot chainsaw. It will whup yo' butt! The few I am actually sucessful landing, well, sucks to be them.

I am the top preditor on the water. (Operative word "On.") Believe that. If there comes a day I am not, then, perhaps I will be shark food. I know that going into the game.
 
For every human killed by a shark 20 million sharks are killed by humans. I'm hardly a treehugger or anything but the waste annoys me, finning should be outlawed.
 
spud_meister said:
in light of a man being killed by a shark and the subsequent hunt for the shark, do you think that, if they manage to find this one shark out of many, this shark should be killed, and do you think sharks should be killed if they attack?
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Depends on species and aggresive nature of the specific animal. If it's an isolated case, probably not so much. If it's endangerd, it gets more consideration to letting it live. However, if it's been attcking multiple people; then by all means kill it.
 
Djoop said:
For every human killed by a shark 20 million sharks are killed by humans. I'm hardly a treehugger or anything but the waste annoys me, finning should be outlawed.
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I actually agree with this. It's one thing to catch a shark for its meat and sell it at market. It's another to catch as many sharks as possible, cut the fins off, and then throw the carcass back into the water. A shark is just an animal, but still we shouldn't be so callous towards random sharks and we should be mindful of the effects our fishing practices have on the population.
 
ludahai said:
Try doing a triathlon in a public pool... seriously, I don't like to swim too far off the shore ... partly due to sharks, but more due to jellyfish... I was at the beach swimming last year in January and almost swam into two fairly large (and very beautiful, colorful) jellies that came in far closer to shore than usual... Needless to say, good thing I didn't actually get tangled in it as there weren't many people on the beach at the time and my wife can't swim... and for the record, I prefer tris with the swim leg in a lake or river...
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I ****ing hate jellyfish with a passion. Not so much the big ones, because they're easy to see and avoid. It's those little tiny buggers that swarm all around you that you cannot see and avoid really. The ones that are so damn small, they slip right down inside your wetsuit. The ones that, when you're in the water with them, feel like a 100 bees stinging you all at once, all over your body.

Jellyfish like Lion's mane jellyfish are almost mesmerizing to watch underwater, and easily avoidable. But those little tiny buggers... GRRRRRRRRR
 
rivrrat said:
I ****ing hate jellyfish with a passion. Not so much the big ones, because they're easy to see and avoid. It's those little tiny buggers that swarm all around you that you cannot see and avoid really. The ones that are so damn small, they slip right down inside your wetsuit. The ones that, when you're in the water with them, feel like a 100 bees stinging you all at once, all over your body.

Jellyfish like Lion's mane jellyfish are almost mesmerizing to watch underwater, and easily avoidable. But those little tiny buggers... GRRRRRRRRR
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I hate when the little ****ers wash up on the beach and you step on one. **** jellyfish.
 
rivrrat said:
Yeah, I don't even know what their purpose is.
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To keep you off the beach. Beaches suck anyway. Hot, sunny, burning sand, the ocean is full of animal piss and poo. **** that! Unsanitary bastards.
 
Ikari said:
To keep you off the beach. Beaches suck anyway. Hot, sunny, burning sand, the ocean is full of animal piss and poo. **** that! Unsanitary bastards.
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Yeah. We should kill all those ****ing beaches too, for being so unsanitary. That will teach them proper respect! 'Course, I'm not sure how you'd kill a beach, exactly....



.... really hard beach slap, maybe....


:mrgreen:
 
Goshin said:
Yeah. We should kill all those ****ing beaches too, for being so unsanitary. That will teach them proper respect! 'Course, I'm not sure how you'd kill a beach, exactly....



.... really hard beach slap, maybe....


:mrgreen:
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No just send all the fattys there and skinny people stop going. The sand will get crushed and the water will begin to smell worse than it already does. Then when the beaches miss the skinny people that don't make the beaches suck it will clean up their act and skinny people will return.
 
Goshin said:
Yeah. We should kill all those ****ing beaches too, for being so unsanitary. That will teach them proper respect! 'Course, I'm not sure how you'd kill a beach, exactly....



.... really hard beach slap, maybe....


:mrgreen:
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Not the beach silly. All the animals which pee and poo in the ocean! I mean, haven't they heard of proper restrooms!?
 
All sharks are "killer sharks".
All sharks kill to survive.

No shark should be killed for attacking humans, since when this happens it is almost always a mistakes. The shark gets mixed up, thinking that we are prey, and it attacks. Most of the time, after the attack, it leaves when it realizes that the human is not a seal or fish. Sharks are extrememly important to marine ecosystem. The shark should be caught and removed to another area at most. If people don't like it, don'e swim where there are sharks. Idiots. Jeez...
 
Ikari said:
I actually agree with this. It's one thing to catch a shark for its meat and sell it at market. It's another to catch as many sharks as possible, cut the fins off, and then throw the carcass back into the water. A shark is just an animal, but still we shouldn't be so callous towards random sharks and we should be mindful of the effects our fishing practices have on the population.
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I am hardly an expert on finning so I may very well be wrong, but my understanding is that the finners fin the shark and then release it back into the ocean ALIVE. But because it can't swim, it quickly becomes food for some other marine animal.
 
soccerboy22 said:
No just send all the fattys there and skinny people stop going. The sand will get crushed and the water will begin to smell worse than it already does. Then when the beaches miss the skinny people that don't make the beaches suck it will clean up their act and skinny people will return.
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that is just gross, but I was beginning to think on my last trip to the U.S., during which we did go to the beach, that there may not be any skinny people LEFT in the U.S. :mrgreen:
 
Ikari said:
I actually agree with this. It's one thing to catch a shark for its meat and sell it at market. It's another to catch as many sharks as possible, cut the fins off, and then throw the carcass back into the water. A shark is just an animal, but still we shouldn't be so callous towards random sharks and we should be mindful of the effects our fishing practices have on the population.
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That's kinda what the shark does sometimes. But instead of cutting fins off, it takes a calf, or a foot, or a thigh. I can see how a reasonable person might object to the people who take a shark just for the fin, or a rhino just for the horn, or an elephant, just for the tusk. That don't set right with me either.

So, to be clear, I ain't that kind of a shark killer. I try to avoid shark altogether. But when one gets on my hook, one goes in the freezer. When two get on my hook, the second one is gutted and returned back to the ocean's food chain. I really detest that animal. Just as the shark is hardwired to attack the occassional human, I am hardwired to cut the occassional shark up and return it to the briny deep as fish fodder.

Ahhh.... balance is awesome. You're ALL awesome. :mrgreen:
 
Captain America said:
That's kinda what the shark does sometimes. But instead of cutting fins off, it takes a calf, or a foot, or a thigh. I can see how a reasonable person might object to the people who take a shark just for the fin, or a rhino just for the horn, or an elephant, just for the tusk. That don't set right with me either.

So, to be clear, I ain't that kind of a shark killer. I try to avoid shark altogether. But when one gets on my hook, one goes in the freezer. When two get on my hook, the second one is gutted and returned back to the ocean's food chain. I really detest that animal. Just as the shark is hardwired to attack the occassional human, I am hardwired to cut the occassional shark up and return it to the briny deep as fish fodder.

Ahhh.... balance is awesome. You're ALL awesome. :mrgreen:
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i don;t see the balance, you've killed a lot more sharks than sharks have killed you.
 
spud_meister said:
i don;t see the balance, you've killed a lot more sharks than sharks have killed you.
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I don't know about Cap'n America, but that's how I like my "balance" sheet - firmly on my side. :mrgreen:
 
spud_meister said:
i don;t see the balance, you've killed a lot more sharks than sharks have killed you.
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This is true. I have also killed more whitetail deer than have killed me. I can also add to that list, hogs, cattle and chickens, snakes, wasps, spiders and scorpions. In fact, I can say without reservation that I have killed a lot more things than have killed me. That's what makes me the WINNER! :mrgreen:
 
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