Shark Culling Persuasive Essay

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What would you say if someone of high power called for a culling on sharks? Would you be for? Or against this action? From my perspective, a culling would do nothing but lower the numbers of sharks, but not the numbers of attacks.

Good morning/afternoon Mrs. Arnold and fellow classmates. Today I would like to talk to you about the situation we have with the amount of shark attacks and fatalities. There are my main reasons for being against a culling of the shark population. Firstly, statistics show that there is no increase in fatalities, secondly sharks have both direct and indirect benefits for humans, even though sharks pose a threat to any of those who enter their domain and finally, there are solutions to keep sharks at bay.

This question of culling the sharks is not
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They keep the seal population down, this allows plenty of fish to thrive and allows fisherman to catch and sell those fish to make their living and they also give the people of the world an experience of how sharks live and work during the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. A culling of these marine creatures is nothing unless we take into account the harm that sharks cause to humans. The amount of sharks that would need to be controlled to have an effective protection is a significantly larger number than the number of humans that would benefit from controlling the sharks population. In addition, if the culling of the sharks population was to go forward, it would only make way for a new creature to become a nuisance our beaches and feed within the oceans. Alongside that, human culling does not work like the natural culling of apex predators. Where predators go after the weak and elderly, our culling targets those that are fittest or targets those that have others depending on them. So with this kind of culling it could challenge the entire existence of the sharks that have been here for over 400 million

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