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Ellen
It was a danger to the ships traversing the seas at the time and was causing both a scare and economic disruption. So they sought to eliminate the monster that was causing it to resume sea travel to normal. At this time, steamer ships were the main way of moving people between continents.
Jennifer Lee Rossman
Same reason people are still looking for bigfoot now, I'd imagine - it's a mysterious thing, and we want to prove its existence, study and understand it, and put it in zoos and traveling shows (or in the case of a sea monster, kill it so it won't be a danger to boats).
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