Australian shark fear survey shows little support for culling

Australia ranks high in global charts of shark attacks and is currently running an aggressive culling drive against the marine predator, but a new survey says many Australians aren’t really that worried about them. “The assumption is that the public is afraid that when shark bites happen that they react emotionally and that they are looking for an immediate response,” University of Sydney shark expert Christopher Neff told Reuters. “My data and what the public has said refutes that,” he said of the survey, which asked visitors how the government should respond to shark attacks. There have been 892 shark attacks in Australia since records began in 1791, 217 of which have been fatal.