There were 71 shark attacks world wide in 2007, of which one was fatal... source ISAF
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks...ics/statsw.htm
There have been three fatalaties that I have heard of this year, the Austrian Lawyer, a 16 year old surfer in Australia, and now this one.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...efer=australia
(Papa, the chumming thing was a joke, so keep your hair on )
Chum is no joke Chum, but Global Warming! Now that's funny stuff! Now the world wide attack problem is really scaring me, you now have a 1 in two billion chance of being killed by a shark! Stay out of the water! And for god sake don't let your legs dangle!
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Yeah, you're probably right... I just flinch whenever I hear a shark attack story, I can hear the media wheels grinding into another meal to feed their uneducated readers.
Re the numbers, these are reported attacks, many places wont bother or dont know how, so perhaps not encompassing all... but even so, IMHO I doubt it would be that many more.
Well, at this point the sharks are way behind. We kill about 100 MILLION of them a year just for their fins. When sharks catch up, then we should think about doing something, until then maybe we are blaming the wrong animal. If humans had not overpopulated this planet as much as they have, then shark attacks would be even less. (think about that)
Think about the number 100 MILLION as well, every year...who are the animals?
The figures depend on where you read. Fisheries estimate it at between 60-70 million a year, based on declared figures from "legitimate" operations - but they don't take into consideration the illegal/undeclared catches.
Sharkwater, conservation action groups etc have estimated it as much higher, given that not all operations work within guidelines.