I was chilling with this cool Shark, we became friends and he asked me

Apparently it's an estimate but an educated one http://www.sharkproject.org/haiothek/index_e.php?site=gefahr_10

I stand corrected then.

I agree with stark, it did seem a little far fetched but nevermind
Sad that so many are killed :(

Cats too

No we're not actually
We are not killing them out of self defence. They are not coming into OUR homes and attacking us. We are going into THEIR homes and freaking out for no reason
And anyway, they're mainly killed for their fins not because people are trying to make our beaches safer. They rarely come close to beaches anyway

Most of them are killed for fin soup which is exactly as it sounds.