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| Killing sharks will not guarantee public safety: lobby group |
| 2003-02-09 |
| The Humane Society says efforts to catch the shark responsible for a fatal attack on Queensland's Gold Coast yesterday are pointless. Nets and baited drum lines will remain in Burleigh Lake after examinations of three bull whaler sharks caught on Saturday night failed to find any human remains. The society's director, Michael Kennedy, says although a death is regrettable, killing a handful of sharks will not guarantee public safety. It won't make the public any less safe, will it? He also says sharks numbers are under threat and this sort of action will only make the situation worse. "If you look at the examples of Perth and Adelaide in the last year or so when there were fatalities from shark attacks, that both the authorities and the public in those cases showed restraint, there wasn't a mad rush to retribution," he said. Kinda takes your breath away, doesn't it? He forgot to add that the latest victim was just an old man, he would have died soon, anyway. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |