Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "Shark population in Australia 'just out of hand'" video.

  1. Spot on. Hard against the mostly inaccessible rock faces around Sydney is of the few remaining places where fish stocks are relatively healthy. Commercial operators can't work there, few amateur boaters are game, and access from the rocks is limited. Is is the place a shark would go looking for a feed.
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  2. And apparently the last fatality 60 years ago was credited with being a Bull Shark. You can get attacked by a Bull Shark 30 miles upriver from the ocean in near complete fresh water. A Bull Shark, not a Great White, will deliberately attack a person for food. If a Great White really wanted to eat someone there wouldn't even be bits of wetsuit left in this case, and no such sport as surfing would even exist.
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  3. Who's this clown. Sharks have the right to be in the ocean in ANY number that nature determines. Clearly shark attacks have significantly increased in recent years. Try overfishing by commercial operators as the most likely explanation. When I was a young kid you could catch decent size fish from the river bank. Then in time you at least a boat to get to the banks in the middle of the river. Than later, at least a boat to get offshore. Now you need something capable of getting to the continental shelf. I can recall seeing boats coming back from inshore reefs in the 1980's FULL of fish. Ten times the amount anyone could possible eat. Now you'd be lucky to catch anything on those same nearshore reefs. Along the costal cliff faces is one of the last unexploited fish habitats as commercial boats can't operate there. That's where I'd be looking for a feed if I were a shark.
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