harrysurfer said..
Sharks bigger than 2 m taste like ****, ammonia
Not to mention the bioaccumulation of heavy metals such as mercury.
Killing sharks to make the ocean 'safer' is ridiculous. We really don't need to kill every little thing that poses a tiny threat to us. Based on that mentality we should remove every single organism from the ocean that poses any threat to us. That means killing all blue ringed octopus, box jellies, stonefish, stingrays, coneshells etc etc. Is there a huge movement to cull them? No. People want to kill sharks because of emotions.
They are scared of them largely because of their size and reputation. The media definitely doesn't help either.
When you consider how many people die in the ocean due to drowning and other causes, shark attacks only account for a very low proportion of deaths. If we remove all the large predatory sharks, we are only going to reduce the probability of death by a negligible amount.
Is it worth it to completely alter an ecosystem just to make yourself feel marginally safer when in the ocean? My opinion is no.