Numbers of killer sharks circling Australia has increased by up to 400% over the last decade thanks to the work of the eco-fundamentalists and pandering politicians to protect the deadly menace.
There has been a ban on killing the great white in Australian waters for something like 10 years.
Of course what is at stake here is the Australia’s multi-billion dollar tourism industry.
Michael Brown of Surfwatch Australia, which conducts thrice-weekly helicopter flights over NSW beaches, said:
“The Government has a huge sook when you bring it up but I’d say they are increasing 400 per cent.”
Mr Brown said governments did not have any interest in publicising the problem “because of the effect on tourism, and the government revenues, and maybe the hysteria that goes along with it.”
You know it should have been pretty obvious to anybody with half a brain that if you ban the killing of man eating sharks and crocodiles, with humans being their only natural predator that they would breed up and their numbers would explode.
GOVERNMENTS do not want the public to know shark numbers have increased by more than 400 per cent in the past decade so people do not panic, and to save Australia’s reputation as a safe place to swim.
Adam Smith, who last year instituted the Great Australian Shark Count, has used for the past 18 months two methods to count sharks: opportunistic counting, where divers and fishermen report shark sightings to his website; and dedicated counts, on four selected weekends.
“We’ve seen 11,000 sightings since we started counting, and when we mapped out the project, we thought we might see 2000 sharks,” Dr Smith said.
The Australian government does not want a bar of the debate, in fact it won’t even try to monitor shark numbers. Hell it might have to admit that it’s and previous governments policy of pandering to the eco-fundamentalists demands does have serious short and long term consequences on our economy.
Tony Peake of the Shark Research Institute in Western Australia said the issue had become “very politicised”. “You can’t say there are more sharks, because Australia is a tourism place, and our lives are based around the shoreline, and you can’t say to people, ‘Oh, you can’t go for a swim’. It’s bad for the business of the country,” Dr Peake said.
“Basically, there’s a lot of money in being green. If you say you’re going to save something, the Government will give you money, and if that means more sharks, they don’t care.
The eco-fundamentalist will be happy. After all they don’t want those filthy carbon breathing foreigners trapping on our pristine beaches, national parks or fishing in our oceans. Come to think of it, they don’t even want those of us that live here doing it either.
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