"First was the French tourist, killed while swimming off Saint-Martin in December 2020. The manager of a nearby water sports club raced out in a dinghy to help, only to find her lifeless body floating face down, a gaping wound where part of her right thigh should have been. Then, a month later, another victim. Several Caribbean islands away, a woman snorkelling off St Kitts and Nevis was badly bitten on her left leg by a shark. Fortunately, she survived."
"Island nations often ask for his help after a shark bite, he says, because I am actually presenting a new vision I say, You don't have a problem with sharks, you have a problem with one shark.' Human-shark conflicts are not solely the result of accidents or happenstance, Clua says. Instead, he says there are such things as problem sharks: bold individuals that may have learned, perhaps while still young, that humans are prey."
A French tourist was killed while swimming off Saint-Martin in December 2020, found floating face down with part of her right thigh missing. A month later a snorkeller off St Kitts and Nevis survived a severe bite to the left leg. Marine biologist Eric Clua proposes that some individual sharks become 'problem' sharks by learning to treat humans as prey. Clua argues that identifying and removing those bold individuals could reduce human-shark conflicts and discourage authorities from resorting to broad lethal measures. Large-scale culls have occurred, including more than 500 sharks killed near Reunion between 2011 and 2013, yet calls for further culls continued.
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