Marine biologist and ocean conservationist on why shark culling is not the answer

Marine biologist and ocean conservationist Lauren Sandeman says shark culling is not the answer to reduce the number of shark attacks in Australia. Ms Sandeman said there was no evidence a cull would make the sea any safer. “If your objective is to reduce a shark bite occurring culling isn’t going to achieve that objective simply because that is what decades of research in evidence of shark bite mitigation tells us,” she said. “A shark bite isn’t determined by the size of a local shark population.” “The rise in shark bites that were seeing in Australia and around the world is predominately determined by the drastic increase in the number of people were seeing in the ocean. “More people is leading to more interactions.