Thats cool Hawkeye, I have 2 good friend who work in a diveshop at Cronulla and they instruct a lot of shark dives!
The point of the survey, well it was based on "respect", how much respect the animal deserves, and which animals we should treat better than others, ie. be nicer to dogs but kick cats in the head, etc... SOrt of like which animals have more rights than others!
As far as I know it had nothing to do with ecological value, if it did, you're right it would be a different story