Jaws

Nets kill too many turtles, dolphins, harmless sharks and other poor sweet innocent beasties.

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:Nets kill too many turtles, dolphins, harmless sharks and other poor sweet innocent beasties.

the way I see it is that it is either them or me.

taipan wrote:

Bradman wrote:I don't think there's been a fatality off a QLD beach since they started netting in 1960.

Either net or take the advice of the NT tourism authorities. The only safe place to swim is the hotel pool.

I don't think there has been a shark fatality on any netted beach in SA.

There hasn't been a shark fatality in an unetted beach in Sydney for about 50 years.

How about electric fences?

Actually the attrition rate for turtles is pretty good. They tend not to lay eggs in places where a million odd tourists a year might step on them. (That wasn't sarcasm or facetioushness BTW).

JGK wrote:

taipan wrote:

Bradman wrote:I don't think there's been a fatality off a QLD beach since they started netting in 1960.

Either net or take the advice of the NT tourism authorities. The only safe place to swim is the hotel pool.

I don't think there has been a shark fatality on any netted beach in SA.

There hasn't been a shark fatality in an unetted beach in Sydney for about 50 years.

Maybe the rec fishers have a point about fishing restrictions in and around the harbour?

Bradman wrote:Actually the attrition rate for turtles is pretty good. They tend not to lay eggs in places where a million odd tourists a year might step on them. (That wasn't sarcasm or facetiousness BTW).

That's OK, I don't mind you being sarcastic and/or facetious at me.
I was just trying to cover all the bases - and then got tired when I realised it would take about 15 pages to cover all the potentially affected species.

Funny thing I heard today:

Q: Why is it called a shark?


A: Because the first person who saw one could decide whether to say "shit" or "fark".

PMSL. Nevr heard that one.