Definite NO for me

yes

are you talking what the government has proposed with only sharks close to beachs or are you talking a full scale cull?? this is the problem with all the hype at the moment too many people who have no idea what the government had planned are kicking up a fuss!

 Tag tag tag. Lots of signal beacons. And sirens everywhere. Simple!

All the money spent on all this other shit, then they say they want to pay fisheries all this money for the culling of sharks that come in close.... Spend it on paying people to tag instead.

All of the food chain should be harvested at a similar rate- although some species require special consideration. You can't rape and pillage the rest of the food chain and then protect the Apex predator.

Imagine Africa if they had never killed a Lion or a Tiger yet plundered everything else- There would be a lot of people starting to get eaten.

 As long as they are being tagged with a shot gun I'm all for a tagging program! 

Im not saying we need to wipe them all out but it's obvious that numbers are growing an they are turning to humans for a reliable source of food!

Dunno Jeff, I haven't paid any attention to all the hype really.  Waters too warm for me to worry about it, but thought I'd put it up as people have asked for a poll.

 Iv stoped diving an it's got to be firing to get me out for a surf! I grew up surfing an diving/ fishing in dunsborough and neve saw a white for 25 years. Iv seen 4 had numorus mates boats and diving being hassled an 2 fatal attacks ( bunkers and busselton) in tha last 3 years. 

into the brinny , nothing wrong with a cull allows new life to re juvinate

 Remove from endangered species list - definitely

no to cull but YES to fishing for them!!

and no cull then what research will we do?

The research card is just smoke for "no solution"

All i see is that shark numbers have increased since the commercial shark ban 6 or so years ago. Its obvious Whites are either increasing in wa and or finding safe haven in protected waters.

Im interested to see how this season  goes and if they are still as agressive in our local waters.

Sadly i just cant risk doing my evening 430 till 6:00pm crab dives in the sound. Its just miles to risky now.

need,what purpose do they serve? yep cull a few

yes for me

Any one that recons we don't need to cull a few I will gladly take to rotto if they want to dive an catch a few crays! Il even provide the all the dive gear! Cause I'm pretty sure your not going to find me on my usual spots 

 Had more injuries being hit by dumbass drivers when riding my pushie

Let em swim free

Enter at your own risk

Calculated risk

Yes remove the sharks, that come too close to shore
Give them to uni's for research, be better than dissecting the old wobbegong

cage diving for whites at rotto, yesss haha.

catch and release be fun too

just go get rid of all those fkn whaler sharks takin my fishhh

 NO as in killing great whites

  A big YES for giving the hooks back to the profisherman that would make afue dollars off the meat and the fins ,ever since they took the hooks off of them the skarks have been a problem

   Yes we have a shark problem from the top off australia to the bottom of Oz ,i think there is between 15 other breads of shark that also EAT people not just the whites ,where do we stop at which one to kill next ,i live in Exmouth and have seen a white here ,i have never heard of a person eaton by a white but the have been eaton by other sharks ???

  thanks for doing this Ads 

 jeff

  ps ;im still going out and spearfishing

Our fish stocks need to be managed throughout, as stated above by Nauti Buoy, giving the pro's a licence to catch a limited quote will go along way to resolving the this and other issues.

Cheers

Sails

a controlled cull of the biggest specimens, say 10 individuals 5m+ over a 12month period then Tag any others they come across and pile a heap more money into research.

If that stops the attacks then leave it there. Further attacks cull another 10.

It's a no for me. Here's another angle are they worth anything commercially? Meat, fins etc. If so then why not a quota?

Have closed the voting - Much more even than today tonight, but still favouring no.

YES - if theyb pose a risk or are located after an attack.

If they see you they'll have a go at you for sure

I dont believe in heading out for the big cull sesssion as they put it , but if one is close to the beaches and endagers lives or has attacked and is hanging around put out a set line in case its still around and remove it from possible causing more harm or getting tag as a rogue shark  

Just thought I'd throw this up to remind everyone what we're talking about.

Big No.

And i love going to the beach and swimming. Love doing Abalone too.

Culling is not the answer.

 Nope

Nope from me

 It's a yes from me. 

no fkn way for me its like saying lets go out and kill the people out there that have killed outher people ,we know thats nt gona happen.

lets get out the stella and test out the drag hahahahahahahaha

it's a no from me for culling

 Yes from me if they pose a threat.

nooooooooooo. avid spearfisher too.

NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers

Old Banga!

BIG NO FOR ME!

As a person who plays in both the realms of the big fish with teeth above & below the water I would have to say TAG,NOT KILL.I have seen what happens when you spear fish underwater, hence the reason I don’t do it, ever!” and will never” get in the water with someone who is. The way the fish react is natural to them other predators come from nowhere to investigate. I believe the Great Whites you see along the coast have been here before and are just doing what they do naturally, following the whales and waiting for a feed. Respect the ability as Humans to go into the water as fish don’t have the same ability to go on land. There world there rules. .

yes,, cull.  there are definatly more around the shore these days.

The mosquito carrying malaria/ ross river e.t.c. are only doing what comes natural to them too.

Humans are so selfish. It's their planet too. Imagine what would be happening if people weren't here. There wouldn't be any cull or no cull. Just let the sharks do their thing. Pretty sure people are smart enough to know the risks when entering the water. 

they should tag electronically all big sharks, its working as alarms have gone off in recent weeks. 

A big NO from me for culling. 

BUT also if one is repeatedly coming into  a popular beach menacing people, I would have to say maybe kill it, but this would have to be over several days that shark kept coming in closer and closer to shore.

kill....

 No

No if you dont understand and appreciate the creatures and risk dont go f**** swimming

http://au.news.yahoo.com/local/wa/a/-/local/15047821/greens-speak-out-against-wa-shark-cull/

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A West Australian government proposal to destroy sharks that come too close to swimmers could breach the federal government's White Shark Recovery Plan, the Greens say.

The Barnett government last week announced it would spend $2 million on a new service to track, catch and destroy sharks in close proximity to beachgoers.

Greens senator Rachel Siewert said she had written to the federal environment minister about the issue.

"The idea of pre-emptively destroying members of a vulnerable species is a poor approach from an ecological point of view, and it is far from clear that this will do anything to prevent attacks," she said.

"In fact, it might give people a false sense of security."

The White Shark Recovery Plan recognises that the great white shark is fully protected in Australian waters.

Ms Siewert said plans to kill sharks that got too close to the WA shore could be in breach of the plan that was made in accordance with the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.

"It is questionable as to whether killing sharks under the proposed plan would meet the requirement of being 'reasonably necessary' to qualify for an exemption under the EPBC Act," she said.

Ms Siewert said an increased investment in research and non-lethal means of intervention would be a better approach.

Supports the agruement to start tagging and tracking ASAP to determine shark numbers and whether GWS still need to be protected. The alerts will/should be used to protect people entering the water. Possiblly could have other shark species tagged and tracked to verify how many and what species of sharks are interacting with humans.

A tagged Gw has been setting off the Ocean Reef reciever very regularly over the past few weeks. It set it off a number of times this morning.- Tagged white shark detected at Ocean Reef receiver at 12:04am, 06:26am,06:46am, 07:14am, 07:19am, 07:25am and 07:45am.
How do they decide when a shark is an "imminent threat". When it bites someone in half?
Either way seems it seems wise not to go for a paddle off ocean reef or Mullaloo beach any time soon.

http://www.sharkalarm.com.au/event/420

A shark has killed a surfer off a beach at coastal Vandenberg US Air Force Base following a summer of shark sightings along California's Central Coast.

Francisco Javier Solorio Jr, 39, died in the attack off the coast of Surf Beach in Lompoc, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.

He was bitten in his upper torso.

Mr Solorio “had a friend who he was surfing with who saw the shark bite or hit the man”, said sheriff's Sergeant Mark A Williams.

“His friend ended up swimming over and pulling him from the water where he received first aid.”

The friend started first aid while another surfer called for help, but Solorio was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.

The Government has called for submissions for research into shark deterrents, with $2 million available for WA projects aimed at protecting beach goers.

Science and Innovation Minister John Day said a Shark Hazard Advisory Research Committee, chaired by WA’s chief scientist Lyn Beazley, would assess the applications.

Mr Day made the announcement at Mullaloo in Perth.

At nearby Ocean Reef, a shark alert beacon had been triggered 19 times since midnight.

According to Surf Life Saving WA a tagged great white shark was detected off Ocean Reef at 11.44pm, 11.55pm, 12.04am, 6.26am, 6.46am, 7.14am, 7.19am, 7.25am, 7.28am, 7.35am, 7.40am, 7.45am, 7.51am, 8.39am, 8.49am, between 11.27am and 11.38am, 11.50am, 12.15pm, 12.34pm and most recently between 1.07pm and 1.25pm.

The City of Joondalup has closed beaches from North Mullaloo to Ocean Reef all day.

The Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter is patrolling the area.

Yesterday rangers closed the beaches around the Ocean Reef Marina for several hours after a tagged great white was detected.

Beaches 500m either side of the marina were closed twice yesterday.

On Sunday a great white was detected at Ocean Reef and City of Joondalup rangers closed several beaches near the harbour.

The City of Busselton has closed the beach along the Busselton foreshore after a 2.5m shark was spotted 10m offshore east of the Busselton jetty this morning.

Beach 50m either side of the siting has been closed.

Applications for the first round of funding are open now and close on November 21, with Mr Day expecting the first grants could be awarded in December.

Mr Day said the funding hoped innovative research to reduce the risk of shark attacks could be developed faster and hopefully in time for next summer.

He said grants of up to $300,000 over three years would be available to WA-based organisations, including universities, research institutes, industry and not-for-profit organisations.

“We hope there will be additional research into maybe better camouflage suits for surfers and swimmers, better shield devices, better detection mechanisms, improved monitoring of shark activity and maybe some additional repellent mechanisms that are better able to protect the community from shark attacks,” he said.

“One idea that is being trialled at the moment is a camouflage suit, which is essentially striped to better protect surfers and swimmers so they look less like seals so the shark can see the contrast.

“A lot of shark attacks we believe are as a result of sharks thinking that humans are food of course and look rather like seals.

The $2 million is part of a $6.85 million package announced by the State Government last month to improve safety on WA beaches after a spate of fatal shark attacks.

How many people saying no think nothing of going fishing ,and killing two dhuies and other fish to get there bag limit .also killing Sargent baker and wrasse for bait ,Killing northwest blowies .Sharks are just another fish,but these ones bite back .If people are so against killing gods creatures,maybe you should sell your fishing gear and play golf.I guess you know my answer too the question at hand.

Spot on paul..

Need to tag a heap of these things and as yesterdays shark at ocean reef ,if he keeps turning up close to shore the he should be distroyed as he is a danger to swimmers  if  it leaves the coast and dosn't come back then leave alone Im not for killing anything that moves .But things need to start happening sooner than latter because more swimmers  will be taken in the next year.

US golf club employees have rescued what is believed to be a young shark that dropped out of the sky and flopped around on the 12th tee.

San Juan Hills Golf Club operations director Melissa McCormack says a course marshal found the leopard shark and brought it to the clubhouse.

It had puncture wounds where it appeared a bird had snagged it from the Pacific Ocean, about eight kilometres away.

They put the approximately 1kg shark into fresh water before somebody remembered it came from the sea, so they got some sea salt from the kitchen and mixed it in.

An employee rushed the shark to the ocean where it was still for a few seconds before twisting around and speeding off.

 The word cull is quite strong, how about another poll asking if catching and killing great white sharks to recreational fisherman should be legal. They are no longer endangered so why have them as a protected species?????

The beach closed sign erected by Joondalup rangers yesterday.

An acoustic receiver off Ocean Reef was activated by a tagged great white shark at least 29 times yesterday but the Department of Fisheries will not say whether it is one shark or several predators lurking off the coast.

The shark beacon has been set off more than 60 times since Sunday, forcing several closures of beaches near Ocean Reef and Mullaloo.

There were four activations early this morning, before 7am.

Joondalup mayor Troy Pickard yesterday said the department had a duty to tell the community whether it was one shark and called on the State Government to protect beachgoers.

“If it is the same white shark that is regularly returning to the Ocean Reef area, then it is my belief that this presents a serious risk to human life and the Government needs to eliminate the danger,” Mr Pickard said.

Fisheries believes the level of information it gives is adequate to protect the public but said it would consider whether to release more data.

Last month the State Government gave the Fisheries director-general powers to issue a kill order if a shark posed an “imminent threat” to people.

Fisheries director-general Stuart Smith said repeated confirmed sightings of a single large shark off popular swimming beaches could be deemed an imminent threat if people were able to swim without knowing it was nearby.

But he said before a kill order was issued, efforts would be made to negate the threat by closing beaches, patrolling the waters or shepherding the shark out to sea.

The Conservation Council said a shark was not an imminent threat just because it set off a beacon.

Flavio Piazza was one of about 10 swimmers prepared to get the regular morning swim in at Mullaloo Beach yesterday. Picture: Steve Ferrier/The West Australian

The shark tagging and coastal satellite-linked receivers, which have a 400m detection radius, are part of a research program to monitor the behaviour of great whites off the WA coast.

About 120 sharks have been tagged and each transmitter is unique, so authorities can identify which shark triggers a receiver.

Shark response unit spokesman Tony Cappelluti said the department did not usually provide details about specific sharks, because all tagged sharks were potentially dangerous.

“It would be risky for people to make value judgments about the level of risk based on the size or species of sharks or their behaviour,” he said.

 Great white sharks are different than Dhue's. They are the apex predator in a very vast Ocean Marine system. Kill them off and then see were you'll be?

Its like house renovating. There are some walls that can be removed from the framework but take out the wrong ones (the Great White ones) and you could find it all collapses around your ears.

I honestly can't believe that fisherman could support culling of species like this???

For the record todays surf for me felt no different than any other day..

Any Fisho worth his weight will let the sharks be !

Sharks have as much right to be there as us !

Killing them on the proviso they " might " attack some one is rediculous. Cars kill more people than the poor shark.

Seriously ! Lets all wrap these scared shark killers up in cotton wool and make their pathetic world free of nasties of all kinds !

I don't get it.

From one side, I see the "let them be", but from the other side, "screw diving this year" is ringing in my ears.

Why can't the goverment issue licences.

Say it costs a boat or individual $2000 to catch and KEEP a GW. Then we can control the "cull" of sharks and also put this money towards research and tagging to sharks. If you have a licence, then you do what you wish. Catch and release, catch and waste, catch and eat/teeth/photo opportunity. Who cares!If you have no licence, then deal with the laws as they stand right now. If you let it go, you need to tag and record it as fisheries does until you get what you are looking for (for me, that big boy!)

More money to fisheries to research, few more tags running around and a few less sharks in the metor area, win, win, win.