Disadvantages
Shark attacks themselves are extremely rare compared to other types of deaths, between 2004 and 2008 there has only been an average of 4 FATAL recorded shark attacks per year. Depending on their size only a few sharks survive being caught on a drum line. The combination of drum lines and shark nets do not directly lead to extinction, but they also do not give the population room to recover from being endangered of extinction.
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