Exterminating Killer Whales

1) Killer whales and their role in the environment. Killer whales are at the top of the food chain, but even the Pro beings up the fact that once those whales die that decomposers digest the whales, recycle the nutrients and organic substances back into the environment, and then those nutrients are made available to be consumed by all the other organisms in the ecosystem. Thats how nutrients move through the food chain, and the same concept works with other top consumers such as birds of prey, bears, wolves, lions, and yes, humans too. http://www.enchantedlearning.com...http://ejad.best.vwh.net...Killer whales do serve a purpose in recycling nutrients back into the environment, many other species do the same thing, and thats just how nature works....2) Threat towards humans"This goes to show that when they do happen to have access to humans in the Wild they are a great danger."Thats kind of funny since there has never been a single fatal orca attack on a human in the wild.http://www.3news.co.nz...Orcas encounter people rarely in the wild, and when they do its surfers, and the orcas will just swim alongside them and not even care! Sharks would tear these surfers to shreds while orcas would play along, why do the whales deserve to all die?"They are belligerent towards humans and eradicate many endangered whale populations."Humans kill more whales than all other whales combined, and we do it on accident 90% of the time, does that mean all humans should be exterminated too because all of these same arguments so far to argue exterminate whales could justify exterminating all humans...." unfortunately we can hardly lock them all up so mass murder (as usual) is the only way."So we should kill all whales because they pose a minor threat to people? The number of people who died from killer whales are usually just trainers who are in the water with them. Other animals kill far more humans than killer whales do, why should whales deserve to all die when they pose a much smaller threat to humans than perhaps a dozen other animals?"With out already over fished seas I propose we take action now and eliminate all Killer Whales to ensure that some fish have a chance of survival"So whales should all be killed to help fish populations survive so that they can later be killed by humans who are already over fishing the seas??? Humans have dozens of other food options to focus on, killer whales only have two, fish and seals. We cant exterminate all the whales for eating perhaps the only food source they have access to, thats how nature works....========================================================================================================================================================Pro's sourceshttp://www.ea-shorts.com...I dont think that this counts as a reliable source since it comes straight from a blog site....http://www.independent.co.uk..."The catastrophic decline of the common seal population in Scottish waters could be blamed partly on killer whales, marine biologists believe."So right there your own source says that killer whales are only partially to blame for the decline in seal populations in Northern Scotland, not the world.... What else could be causing this drop in seal populations?"The Scottish Government's Special Committee on Seals report for 2008 found that competition for food from the more stable grey seal population might also be a significant factor in the decline in harbour seal numbers."So now we see that killer whales may be affecting only a single seal population while other seal populations are doing perfectly fine.... But this source says that one of the biggest reasons that seal populations are declining, is because of other seal populations!You know what though, to be fair the only way this entire argument could be dismissed was if there was something that could single handedly show that seal populations are declining due to something other than the presence of killer whales. "But Mark Simmonds, the director of science at the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, said the decline was much more likely to be linked TO THE LEGALISED SHOOTING OF SEALS TO PROTECT FISH FARMS"Well no f***ing wonder why seal populations are declining, humans are allowed to hunt them to no extent and seals are competing with other seals for the same amount of food!!!!!! Killer whale presence in the area must account for maybe 4% of seal deaths when you factor in everything else!http://www.sikunews.com...This link says that killer whales are the biggest reason of why Sea otter populations are declining, but this link too even says how other factors play a role in why sea otter populations are falling. "The recovery plan does identify some other potential threats to sea otters, most importantly the role of disease and whether there is adequate oil-spill response in southwest Alaska.""The plan also considers potential threats from biotoxins, contaminants, food limitations, commercial fishing, the subsistence harvest, loss of habitat and illegal take."So killer whales are once again only a fraction of the reason why a seal population in some remote corner of the world is declining. I for one fail to see how this is even remotely enough to justify the EXTERMINATION of all killer whales. ========================================================================================================================================================Killer whales are completely harmless to humans in nature and rarely attack humans when in captivity, so why should they all be killed when more harmful animals get to live and continue to kill people? killer whales also play a fair role in recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem contrary to what the Pro states, and any damage they do cause to other animals is done about 10x as much by human activity alone. When you then compare killer whales to other top predators like say other whales, bears, tigers, cheetahs, birds of prey, etc then why is is that only killer whales have to be exterminated when so many other animals commit many of the same crimes at a far greater rate? They dont, and Killer whales should not be exterminated.