RupertW
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It’s not hard - we shoot the ones as they express the atypical behaviour of damaging boats. Either that will be one individual to warn the others off or if necessary (and highly unlikely) the whole pod. Either way round it’s simple wildlife management. I take it you don’t sail those waters or haven’t recently but are happy to expose others to getting their boats disabled and needing rescuing.I’ve seen reports. Obviously not the ones you have seen. A few boats damaged. Much fear. No one hurt. This is atypical orca behaviour. Probably an aggressive reaction to stress caused by fishing methods rather than any preference for eatinga human/ GRP sandwich. Therefore distinct from a “rogue” tiger slightly adapting its hunting and diet to include humans. So do we kill orcas because we have stressed them? And if we keep on stressing them do we then have to keep on killing them? Ad infinitum. Given their highly social nature, do we have to kill a whole pod once we kill one member of that pod? Do we have the names and addresses of the guilty orcas or do we just shoot any we see?