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  Dumping meat into the sea to attract sharks for tourists in cages to gawp at should be banned. Shark behaviour becomes altered and it brings two species into close proximity that should have no connection. The sharks simply work on instinct, get driven into a feeding frenzy and then get the blame when a gullible tourist gets attacked. Yet again the animal kingdom becomes a tool of those trying to make a buck.
  
  Peter Benchley, who died in 2006, did indeed write and lecture in marine conservation as it is reported that he regretted the consequencies of his (extremely lucrative) books and films. Generally though, I do think that the sheer amount of conservation issues that the public have been made aware of in the last thirty years since Jaws has largely changed Western attitudes towards enironmental issues. Just look at the difference betwen David Attenborough's early series Zoo Quest, trapping animals to take back to London Zoo, to that of the recent series Earth and Life.
  
  I think there can be no doubt that it is wrong to exploit animals in their natural habitat for entertainment purposes, passive non-interfering observation being the exception.
  
  As an obscure fact, Peter Benchley practically re-wrote Jaws as Beast, this time revolving around a malicious giant squid. This time poor old Architeuthis took the rap - it was an awful read.

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