Thread: Shark Attacks May lead to Fishing Ban

Originally Posted by midwestexile

You cannot ban swimming, that would cut tourism. You need to deal with the immediate cause, and ban rough surf and undertow! After all, swimming in rough surf doesn't kill people (plus it represents "blaming the victim" as if a person should have to be responsible for their own safety when we have government to take care of us), it is rough surf that kills people.

You can't ban rough surf and undertow. The proper solution is to TAX rough surf and undertow until they cease being a threat.

lets just ban swimming in the ocean along the beach....you enter the food chain at your own risk, and you are NOT at the top of it then

This is a sad situation for those involved. However, sharks don't intentionally attack people. They mistake them for fish. Notice those bitten are almost always horizontal, splashing around. Water in NC is very murky. It's a simple mistake.

More people in the water due to increased coastal populations and more sharks due to conservation efforts. Sorry, but there are bound to be accidents - you need to be aware of the risks.

Do these idiots ever consider a bigger picture? Let's see, there is structure so little things stick to it and hide in it because bigger stuff likes to eat them and they can live longer if they have a place to hide. That bigger stuff isn't that big, but it likes to have a food source around so it hangs close enough to hide from those bigger things that like to eat them and so on. Then there are these clumps of fish that swim together, we call bait, that really big fish like to eat. There may be 10,000 of them in a clump. Now the fisherman hopes his one bait, dropped in where there are literally thousands of other options for the big guys are, will be just pretty enough to make that big guy eat it. The some idiot says, well well, there is a great place to swim, right in here with all this other bait, and I'll splash around like wounded bait, maybe even have some scratch or two bleeding into the water. Well along come hungry fish and says hey, I can eat 100 of these little bites or a chunk of that slow moving bait there with easy bite.

No Ban will be enacted/enforced.
State won't pursue shark fishing ban | StarNewsOnline.com

Wow, common sense isn't completely dead.