Sentence examples for fatal shark bite from inspiring English sources
At the time the nets were introduced, the state's beaches were experiencing, on average, one fatal shark bite every year.
During the three-month drumline trial, a hundred and seventy-two sharks were caught (a hundred and sixty-three were tiger sharks, which have not been responsible for a fatal shark bite in the region since 1925), and sixty-seven were shot or died on the line.
The last fatal shark bite in California was in October 2012, when a great white about 15 feet in length attacked Francisco Javier Solorio Jr. as he was surfing off a beach in Santa Barbara County.
Recently, a series of fatal shark bites in Western Australian waters led to an unusual exemption for the state government from federal environmental laws protecting white sharks.
Even in Australia, which has the highest number of fatal shark bites in the world, the risk of death from a shark is extremely low.
He also suggests that improved water quality may have contributed to the decrease in fatal shark bites at meshed beaches over time.
Even in Australia, which has the highest number of fatal shark bites in the world, the risk of death from a shark bite is extremely low: a yearly average of 1.1 fatalities over the past twenty years.
A group of shark scientists have started campaigning to get the media terminology changed so that news reports would use terminology ranging from shark sighting and shark encounter to fatal shark bites so that the news media might stop perpetuating negative and harmful stereotypes about sharks.[20].[20]
"Claiming that a decline in non-fatal shark bites is due only to the presence of nets is a case of correlation without causation".
Sharon Burden, whose son died from a fatal white-shark bite, in 2011, was a leading member of the anti-cull campaign.
Several surveys have shown that the vast majority of Australians no longer supports radical, lethal action after a shark bite, even a fatal one, and many don't want shark-control programs at all.
