Swimmer killed by Great White!

[bottlefish]

Huh Where are you getting your data and what's it for? It's not for CA or the world.

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 )

[Papa Bear]

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!

[hbh2oguard]

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 )

Thanks for the site! Those numbers seem really low for the whole world though. There seems to be some peaks so three so far doesn't see super out of normal, one last year is just lower than normal.

[bottlefish]

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.

[acelockco]

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?

[amtrosie]

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?

100 million?

Where do you get that figure? That is way too steep!

[hbh2oguard]

100 million?

Where do you get that figure? That is way too steep!

How about 100 billion???

[acelockco]

100 million?

Where do you get that figure? That is way too steep!

http://www.sharkwater.com/education.htm

[bottlefish]

100 million?

Where do you get that figure? That is way too steep!

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.

[acelockco]

Whatever, 60 Million, 100 Million, it does not matter that number is insanely high, and if we don't do something about it, we will eventually kill them all. I guess we are just the cancer of the earth, humans that is.