“Death to sharks,” says French gov.
Posted 02 Aug 2012, by STABmag
Not only have French fishermen been given the go ahead to openly hunt sharks off the coast of Reunion Island, the government has agreed to pay them for it. The decision comes following several attacks off the island in the last 18 months, most believed to have been committed by Bull Sharks, killing three people. The most recent of which came last week when a 22 year old surfer had his leg bitten off.
Fishermen were originally offered two euros ($US2.46) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of dead shark. But that is expected to go up after a spokesman for the French Overseas Ministry said the sum was too little. Animal rights groups are outraged by the decision, calling it a legalized “extermination.”
wardo – people like yourself are definently not at the top of this ‘evolutionary ladder’ I think should be exterminated for your small minded views. Peace love and death to trash
protecting sharks to “maintain balance” in our oceans is a fallacy… we have a worldwide overfishing situation… and we eat everything the shark does, and if we don’t eat something that the shark does, it’s because it’s illegal to and that species is protected as well.
i say, hypothetically, if we kill all the sharks and the sea lion and sea turtle populations explode, we can easily deal with it then, and legalize that meat for consumption. WHERE AM I WRONG HERE???
it’s just hippie snobs who eat their farm meat and say “heeyyyy mannnnn leave the sharks alone”. sharks: animals that actively hunt and kill humans when hungry… and when do they get hungry? when we overfish everything, but protect them. idiots
Sorry mate, sharks are the checks and balances that keep the ocean’s ecosystems ticking along smoothly. Kill them and yes their prey goes through the roof but in order to do that they will in turn decimate the food source they exist off. Long and the short of it is the ocean dies and plankton and algae take over, i promise that’ll be no fun for anyone
” we can easily deal with it then”
How d’you know? Of course we won’t. Sharks are not only eating sea lions and sea turtles. You obviously didn’t understand what a food chain is, boy. Hippie snobs you think? Idiots you say? C’mon, are you talking to your mirror?
It’s amazing to think that there are guys like you who always think of dealing with problem by annihilating it, or trying to… Your way of thinking is binary: leave the sharks alone…or kill ‘em all! And if something is going through my path (like sharks disturbing my snobbish taste for “surfing”) (is there anything more snob than surfing?), then I hit, kill, destroy…
Stop reading my essays, you’ll save your very valuable time for writing more useless, humorless and stupid comments.
I’m not complaining. Sure, just because we’re at the top of the evolutionary ladder and have the ability to exterminate other species doesn’t give is the right to do so. But sharks suck.
More people are killed by elephants, hipos and domestic dogs each year than sharks so let’s kill all of them too. …oh and cars, so let’s kill all car owners as well! Without sharks their prey like squid increase massively in population, the indian and southern oceans now have a huge problem with this because they’ve killed most of their sharks for fin soup. Many islands out there that rely on fishing are literally running out of food because the ocean is full of squid and no fish,.
wardo – people like yourself are definently not at the top of this ‘evolutionary ladder’ I think should be exterminated for your small minded views. Peace love and death to trash
They usually say they are protecting nature, but as soon as reunion island guys said the tourism was in jeopardy, it was “death to sharks”! Reunion island is usually “Reunion island”, you know, as long as they don’t need money or help. If they need money, it becomes “french overseas”….I’m french, but I don’t have the money to go there, and if I had, they don’t want me down there, they don’t want me to ome and spoil their place (but they don’t care coming and spoiling mine)…
Fed up with reunion island stories, they love money more than anything else. Sharks have no chance.
protecting sharks to “maintain balance” in our oceans is a fallacy… we have a worldwide overfishing situation… and we eat everything the shark does, and if we don’t eat something that the shark does, it’s because it’s illegal to and that species is protected as well.
i say, hypothetically, if we kill all the sharks and the sea lion and sea turtle populations explode, we can easily deal with it then, and legalize that meat for consumption. WHERE AM I WRONG HERE???
it’s just hippie snobs who eat their farm meat and say “heeyyyy mannnnn leave the sharks alone”. sharks: animals that actively hunt and kill humans when hungry… and when do they get hungry? when we overfish everything, but protect them. idiots
Sorry mate, sharks are the checks and balances that keep the ocean’s ecosystems ticking along smoothly. Kill them and yes their prey goes through the roof but in order to do that they will in turn decimate the food source they exist off. Long and the short of it is the ocean dies and plankton and algae take over, i promise that’ll be no fun for anyone
@Master of Marine Biology… but the ocean ecosystem is far from balanced… there is rampant overfishing worldwide…
my question is, how are humans not the check and balance that “keep the ocean’s ecosystems ticking along smoothly”? (i.e. if sharks decline and their prey increase, what’s wrong with that? considering our severe overfishing, we would contain their population from “going through the roof”)
we’ve done a pretty shit job so far of maintaining balances in the marine ecosystem so far that i doubt we’d be up for the job
your a fuckin idiot man. do some research.
the most testosterone filled animal in the world, the bullshark, along with great whites, and tigers, should never be protected species in human populated ocean areas. and saying that they control the population of another species that we protect, is ridiculous… and we eat everything else, and overfish everything else.
I get what you’re saying, and it makes sense, but hear me out: Sharks are the apex predators of the marine ecosystem and deleting them would have drastic effects far beyond having more fish, sea lions, etc.
http://sharkangels.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95&Itemid=163 explains it pretty well:
“As the apex predators of the oceans, the role of sharks is to keep other marine life in healthy balance and to regulate the oceans.
The prospect of a food chain minus its apex predators may mean the end of the line for many more species.
Sharks have widespread global distribution, are highly migratory and play a vital role in maintaining the health of ocean ecosystems.
Sharks are a critical component in an ecosystem that provides 1/3 of our world with food, produces more oxygen than all the rainforests combined, removes half of the atmosphere’s manmade carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas), and controls our planet’s temperature and weather.
The oceans are the most important ecosystem on the planet, and our best defense against global warming, containing life that absorbs most of the carbon dioxide (global warming gas) that we put into the atmosphere, converting it into a large percentage of the oxygen we breathe.
Sharks play a vital role at the top of the food chain by maintaining balance in the oceans. Destroying shark populations could destroy our oceans and our life support system.
We have already witnessed localized collapses of fisheries and ecosystems due to the removal of sharks, including the scallop fisheries in Chesapeake Bay, the coral reefs in Belize and the cod in New England.”
It sucks when people get attacked, but that’s the risk they take when they get in the water.
” we can easily deal with it then”
How d’you know? Of course we won’t. Sharks are not only eating sea lions and sea turtles. You obviously didn’t understand what a food chain is, boy. Hippie snobs you think? Idiots you say? C’mon, are you talking to your mirror?
It’s amazing to think that there are guys like you who always think of dealing with problem by annihilating it, or trying to… Your way of thinking is binary: leave the sharks alone…or kill ‘em all! And if something is going through my path (like sharks disturbing my snobbish taste for “surfing”) (is there anything more snob than surfing?), then I hit, kill, destroy…
i was just using sea lions and sea turtles as examples because they are protected species. hypothetically, if their numbers exploded, we would simply have to allow the eating of those protected species. otherwise, i argue fish population over-growth would not happen because we overfish everything and anything (which is just the nature of public fishing in international waters)
Kill’em … sharks are a soil, they make decent fish&chips, and less sharks means more fish for everyone.
also stop writing essays in the comments sections they waste everyone’s time.
Stop reading my essays, you’ll save your very valuable time for writing more useless, humorless and stupid comments.
I just watched Planet of the Apes on TV. It made me think. You two should watch Planet of the Apes before making any more stupid fucking remarks.
Don’t want to watch your family album, man, keep it for yourself
if we were to kill sharks then we should except that there will be some very dramatic changes within WA’s aquatic ecosystem, and not to the good, there will be species booming in population size before descending into extinction.
and if ur having trouble understanding the ‘essays’ written in this post spot maybe u should change to something less complicated.
Surely they just need to net the beaches? Sounds better than murdering an entire species just so people can surf safely in a notoriously shark infested area…??
Trying to control any population always has it consequences. Doing a mass killing of one species will cause another to thrive and therefore cause the next lower species to suffer and so on. Hope you like tuna.
i love tuna…
ASP should boycott Hossegoor
I totally agree, the whole surf community should boycott Hossegor, especially in september and october! Please do that!
What they need to do is stop chumming, and other such practices, within 50 miles of the coast. Like in Oz, this stupid activity brings sharks close to shore, but there is no tangible food, so they go hunt. Leave it to the French though to come up with this. If the sharks fight back, the French will surrender. Run away!
i say chum the fuck out of reunion island and chuck the french in with it! The cheese eating surrender pigs should leave the sharks alone. killing off the sharks wont allow the fish population to grow, only by stopping overfishing and stopping idiots who sit at their laptops thinking they have a clue about the real world from being fucktards come to a rational decision, for example: go in the water, maybe get bitten or killed. Stay on land, dont get bitten, maybe get run over, raped, mugged or shot. there are worse things in the world than sharks and they’re all on land!!! they’re called humans and they think they’re far superior to things that have been around for a lot longer than we have. we’ve got it wrong, very fucking wrong.
Good show! The “smart” sharks will learn the fear of man and then everyone will be happy.
bunch of fucking moron aussies on here, eh? Try getting educated you fucking prison apes! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856008/
woah woah woah, so much hate, its so sad that disagreements in opinion just lead to name calling and racism the internet sucks for this if you were having a discussion face to face you wouldnt speak to each other like this just chill out accept that not everyone thinks the same, which is what makes the world interesting just because some disagrees with you doesnt make them a bad person.
It looks like they called off the hunt: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/01/reunion-island-shark-attack-hunting?newsfeed=true
I love how people think they have come up with a better solution than evolution that has taken millions of years to perfect….
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