Thread: Now this is a Shark

For those with a particular interest in Australian sharks and rays, the definitive work on these creatures is Last, P.R. and Stevens, J.D. (2009). Sharks and Rays of Austrlia (Second Edition). CSIRO Publishing. Here is a link to an extract: http://www.publish.csiro.au/samples/...0Australia.pdf Not a cheap cheap book at $120, but it is very good. It includes realitively simple to use keys to families and species. Peter Last and John Stevens are both Principal Research Scientists with CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart.

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KarlB

Originally Posted by Col.Coleman

Lake Burley Griffin

DON"T GO SWIMMING EVER



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I'll second that. In fact any shark that wanted to eat me would have to love the taste of diaorrhea. It would need to eat through ten yards of it to get at me!

Seriously They stay out of my shower, I stay out of their sea!

I am glad this thread was started. It is fair enough to have differences of opinion. As fAR AS i AM CONCERNED FEEL FREE TO START THIS SORT F THREAD IN THE FUTURE,

Originally Posted by e3j

In fact any shark that wanted to eat me would have to love the taste of diaorrhea. It would need to eat through ten yards of it to get at me!

Hi,
isn't that why they are shown circling the life raft in Hollywood movies.
Just to get that awful taste out of their meal, before they eat it.

Seriously though, an awesome animal, I'm not against a sustainable hunting for food, provided they are not in any danger of depletion, but I'm not in favour of hunting them for sport or just for their fins. They are too magnificent to just waste.
Yes I know we may have to cull them for our own safety; a political reality i suppose, but I think we should at least try and not waste the resource by just dumping the body.
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Originally Posted by e3j

I'll second that. In fact any shark that wanted to eat me would have to love the taste of diaorrhea. It would need to eat through ten yards of it to get at me!

Seriously They stay out of my shower, I stay out of their sea!

Yep, I agree, any shark that can get to me will have to swim up through the plughole in the bathtub!!!!

Originally Posted by Ausfree

Yep, I agree, any shark that can get to me will have to swim up through the plughole in the bathtub!!!!

So you'd better watch out for your local member/s then Aus' !

Originally Posted by Redback

This is not actually true, according to the experts, sharks don't like the way we taste.

Baz.

Baz, Are you confident they talk to each other ? because if they do not then that is a lot of "tastes" before they all work out that we are not really that tasty.

All jokes aside, I am not keen on getting nibbled on but at the same time I do not advocating killing them all either.

I swum and surfed all my life and I have always though I had a greater chance of dying on the drive too the beach than being attacked by a shark once in the water.

My position is lets try and leave them alone but if a few get killed in the pursuit of commercial fishing then I am not going to get too upset about it either.

George.

Originally Posted by DiscoWeb

.....My position is lets try and leave them alone but if a few get killed in the pursuit of commercial fishing then I am not going to get too upset about it either.

George.

I'm 100% with you there. My position is pretty similar.

I believe in the sanctity of all life (with the exception of flies, cockroaches and Collingwood supporters), but not to the exclusion of all other considerations.
That shark was a magnificent beast - I'm just glad I never got to meet it up close when it was still alive. Very sad that it was killed, but I'm not going to shed any tears or criticize.