[obpacheco]

I was listening to an interview of Shane Dorian, a well-known big wave surfer from Hawaii. He was remarking on how, when he was growing, when there was a shark attack the locals would go on a shark hunt, killing numerous sharks. Around the nineties sentiments around these hunts changed, and that combined with the depleting of fisheries, shark attacks in Hawaii have risen dramatically. I think it's time we brought back these hunts in the name of protecting otters. I am obviously not just saying this as a biased surfer...

[crooked-v]

Hawaii's population has also increased from 1.1 million people in 1990 to 1.4 million people today. There's no great peculiarity around the fact that more people means more encounters with sharks.

Also, "dramatically" is quite the claim, when there's a total of only 137 recorded shark attacks in Hawaii ever (including incidents without injuries) dating back to the 1700s.

[obpacheco]

I was just parrotting the interview I listened to but after looking into it it's not false to say that shark incidents are definitely increasing in frequency from using information from https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/sharks/shark-incidents/incident-grap...

Just eyeballing here there was 6 shark atacks from 1980-1985 to about 50 in the last 5 years. Seams like that backs up his claim that there has been a dramatic increase.

[kikoreis]

What has the level of increase been? Shark attacks are ultra rare, with only 5 deaths worldwide in 2018. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2019/03/05/the-201...

[obpacheco]

Deaths sure are rare but looking at hawaii.gov shows the level of increase if your interested https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/sharks/shark-incidents/incident-grap...