Dawn Patrol said..
Was pleased to hear Mr Burrows opinion on the matter and that he will be spending some time working on the issue.
You mean he will be given bags of money to lend his name and image to an untested product...
Check out some of Taj's pro shark fishing comments from before he got on board the gravy train:
stabmag.com/style/what-i-think-about-with-taj-burrow/I'm highly skeptical of the trend of consumer goods that are hailed as shark deterrents being flogged by companies who spend more on legal disclaimers and flash marketing than the sum they devote to research and development. I would like to see government sanctioned testing of such goods and a crackdown on anything that does not do as it promises.
The hypocrisy whenever people talk about sharks is amazing. Cries of 'stay out of the water' and 'its their home' carry little weight from people who hardly spend any time in the ocean, let alone venture from the safety of their couch. I still laugh at the 2000 plus people who gathered at the Save the Sharks demonstration at Cottesloe a while back,yet collectively consumed every morsel of fried sea life from the adjacent fish and chippers.
Personally, I don't eat shark, I don't buy any goods that use shark products and I won't spend money at any restaurant that serves shark fin soup. I avoid the use of plastic bags, I actively recycle and avoid buying items with unnecessary plastic packaging, yet I wouldn't call myself an environmentalist. I have a healthy respect for the ocean, and consciously make an effort every day to at least reduce my own negative impact on the sea.
I'm also a surfer, Gearies has been my local for years and I know Ben and many of the guys who were in the water with him on that Tuesday afternoon. I know the kids who play in the nearby waves and the old salts who sit on their logs talking about the good old days.
I did not feel a single bit of remorse for the shark that was caught and killed. If anything, I'm glad to know that a shark that size was removed from the area. Personally, I don't think that a cull is the answer, but we as a ocean going community should demand that the Government do everything in its power to better understand Sharks, their movements and the ever increasing number of encounters with swimmers and surfers.
Fisheries and Barnet came out saying they would tag sharks. They have provided many millions in funding to do it. They used that information to inform people of sharks movements when they came to close to the shore. HOWEVER they found it was happening too often meaning to many beach closures, (Bad for business) SO they changed the perimeters from 1 km of shore to 500m offshore. Then when beach closures were reduced came out bragging that their cull of tigers had worked to make our beaches safer 
