Manly protesters want shark cull scrapped

The Australian, AVA Benny-Morrison, AAP, February 2014

Thousands have gathered on Manly beach in Sydney to protest against WA's
shark culling policy. Source: AAP

  

ANTHONY Joyce once shared the Western Australian government's views on sharks after he found his foot in the jaws of one while surfing.

But the surfer from Sydney's northern beaches, who was pulled on to the beach at Narrabeen last October bleeding profusely from a wound lined with puncture marks, has done what says is a "180" on his initial support for the culling of sharks over three metres.

"The amount of sharks they are going to kill is going to make no difference in the scheme of things," he said.

Mr Joyce said, since undertaking three moths of research that included talking with shark experts and marine biologists, he now supports greater government support for marine biology programs and shark education in schools and through surf life saving.

Mr Joyce, who took three months to enter the water again after his shark bite, soon hopes to get back on his board.

He was one of thousands of people gathered on Manly beach on Saturday to protest against WA's shark culling policy.

Witty signs, foam shark fins and chants of "stop the cull" filled the idyllic beach.

Among them was James Cook, a 27-year-old who said he was more likely to be king hit than attacked by a shark.

His mother Katherine Cook was equally outraged at Australia's desire to kill the marine animals.

"I'm really angry and incensed that we can't co-exist with anything," she told AAP.

"We are going into their (sharks) environment.

"Why can't we co-exist?"

She said more people died across the world each year from being hit by coconuts than shark attacks.

The baited drum lines along WA's most popular beaches hooked undersized sharks within hours of being set on Friday.

A one-metre tiger shark was caught off Cottesloe Beach. The shark was later released, as was another tiger shark wrangled in the drum line shortly after.

In defence of its policy, the WA Government says a spike in often-fatal shark attacks had dented tourism and leisure based businesses.

WA shark expert Paul Sharp said the baited drum lines might actually increase the risk.

"Simply having those baits in the water will result in excited and stimulated sharks," he said at the Manly protest on Saturday.

"Like any other animal, when they are excited there is a greater risk of an accident happening."

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Kryon Q&A

Question (2002): Dear Kryon, A friend and I are meditating on the recent shark attacks and feel that it has to do with the planetary changes. We just can’t understand why they have become aggressive. What is the message the sharks are bringing? Why is this happening?

—Thank you,

Maryann

Answer: Indeed there are changes with the environment and also with biology regarding the 12-year grid change. I will first give you what was happening in general: What you are seeing are mammals, amphibians, insects, and even fish that are in areas that are new to them. Every life-form that migrates is effected by magnetics. All life forms that follows certain feeding scenarios and are “following the food” have the potential to be affected. This is due to the changing of the magnetic ley lines of the earth as we have stated before.

The areas where you can see in the ocean most clearly are within those migration patterns closest to the land. Where the ocean interfaces with the land, there are challenges for all these creatures for at least one of their generations. Whales will beach themselves by following old magnetics headings that now “drive” them into peninsula’s and other land areas that were marginally on the edge of their old paths. Birds, amphibians, and insects will be seen to do odd things for awhile.

So these shark fish may be in greater numbers in these coastal areas than in the past, but the increased aggressive behavior was actually something else: There was a tremendous “release” of energy due to the Sept. 11 event. Much like the energy of earthquakes and other earth movement, much of the environment “feels it” coming. We have spoken about how the Sept. 11 event was not a surprise to the earth. [See Lee’s article “Did Kryon give us hints”] So, some of the new actions of these fish were due to an actual energy buildup of coming events... of which you now understand.

If you are paying attention, therefore, you might ask, “Does this mean that Human consciousness issues affect the actual earth?” Yes they do! Finally you may begin to see how global consciousness is tied into the environment, and even to basic physics and reality. They are not separate, and never were. The indigenous knew it, and now the “modern” world is beginning to wonder.

Blessed is the Human Being who understands that what they think, do, and intend, actually drives the reality of the dirt of the planet!