Persuasive Essay On Shark Killing

Did you know that vending machines are bigger killer than sharks? And that 10 people are killed by sharks worldwide every year? Yet we continue to kill 10 million sharks every year. Shark culling was implemented in WA in 2013 to protect swimmers, with great whites being targeted, although 50 species of sharks including great whites, are listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. The system isn’t cheap either with the government paying fisherman $610 000 for 107 days of the catch and kill program. This figure is not including the costs of drumlines and other programs helping the mitigation. We know that the ocean is the shark’s territory and people should need to make the decision whether to take the risk when entering the water. To elucidate my argument, I will explain in three different parts, the damage that it can cause on the ecosystem, the government are contradicting themselves by killing endangered species and that many other things are killing people at a faster rate.
One of the main problems with the shark culling program is that sharks sit at the top of the marine food pyramid, meaning they are predators. I am not the only one who
This practise is deeply ironic and contradictory to what the government and experts stress us to do. “Will culling sharks actually reduce the risk of an attack? The answer is no.…Pre-emptively killing sharks is a response based on emotion rather than of scientific data”, wrote Ryan Kempster, Shark biologist at University of Western Australia, and Shaun Collin, Winthrop Professor at the School of Animal Biology and the Oceans Institute at University of Western Australia. Culling sharks is not going to decrease likelihood of an attack, it is pointless and isn’t improving public safety, it is just causing public