[pcottraux]

We Humans, not sharks, are atop the food chain.

I'm looking at "harm" and "threaten" from the viewpoint of the humans. The shark hasn't made any humans feel threatened by being near them (that we know of).

I don't know if you've ever had it, but shark meat is not very good.

'Cause we can

Great White Sharks are an endangered species. We need to keep as many alive as possible, because we depend upon their existence more than we realize.

The food chain is not in question here. Sharks don't eat humans. In the movies, they do, but not in reality. There's no reason to kill this shark.

BTW, why this shark in particular? It's 19 feet long. It's big, but that doesn't make it more dangerous. In fact, I would think a shark that size would be LESS dangerous than a Makko Shark (which would be smaller, lighter, and a LOT faster).

[GladesGuru]

"We need to keep as many alive as possible, because we depend upon their existence more than we realize."

No, we don't. It seems you have accepted the enviro-socialist premise that all life is connected (Gaia hypothesis), that the earth is alive.

Consider that we killed nearly all of the largest organisms ever to live on earth - the Blue Whale. Removing that top carnivore in the Antarctic Sea did nothing except make a lot of krill very happy.

The food chain stayed as it was (minus Blue Whales) and when they came back, little or nothing changed.

But there were unhappy krill. ;-(

The interdependence bit is simply not the major factor the enviro's want us stupid, taxpayers to believe

[GladesGuru]

"We need to keep as many alive as possible, because we depend upon their existence more than we realize."

No, we don't. It seems you have accepted the enviro-socialist premise that all life is connected (Gaia hypothesis), that the earth is alive.

Consider that we killed nearly all of the largest organisms ever to live on earth - the Blue Whale. Removing that top carnivore in the Antarctic Sea did nothing except make a lot of krill very happy.

The food chain stayed as it was (minus Blue Whales) and when they came back, little or nothing changed.

But there were unhappy krill. ;-(

The interdependence bit is simply not the major factor the enviro's want us stupid, taxpayers to believe

[arthurus]

shark meat is not very good.

That depends on preparation. If you allow the meat to become tainted by the liver then, while the ammonia can be removed the taste is ruined. I have caught and eaten shark. It is not bad. It certainly does not come up to the standard of Pompano or Red Snapper but it's OK. However it is not worth the effort.

If you have eaten a lot of scallops in restaurants, chances are you have eaten skate or sting ray which is the same as shark but without the ammonia complications. I know about that. Once upon a long time ago I made "scallops" to sell to seafood places. 30 years ago frozen scallops from the grocery store included a lot of skate and ray. My brother in law used to think he was a connoiseur of scallops. When I visited him he took me out to eat scallops in a new restaurant. He was incensed when he thought he got bad scallops. Actually it was good real ones. He was really a connoiseur of skate and didn't know it.