Steel mesh nets?

Adelaide's metro beaches are calling for steel mesh nets in order to protect their aquatic revellers from shark attacks. So protect us from the sharks. Let us swim without fear...but without fear are we swimming without a conscience? Shark nets tend to not only trap and kill sharks but thousands of sea turtles, dolphins, whales and other marine life important to the ocean's ecosystem.Sure we want protection from the mighty Great White and the swift Mako...we want to live, swim, dive, and surf freely....but at what cost?

The Endangered Wildlife Trust and WWF are proposing the use of electronic shark deterrent barriers at beaches in the Peninsula along False Bay South Africa. It is a joint effort to preserve the environment divers love to visit.

Here's an idea deter sharks, but don't kill them.Hmmm.

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