They stack up like cartoon stepping stones. WH-Great Barrier Reef to WH-Great Sandy to Unesco-Noosa(NSR) to Ramsar World Marine Park-Moreton Bay Islands.This includes(South Straddie) of Gold Coast,offshore reefs under Dep of EHP and (WSR's). A NSW DPI drumline snags and tags a 3.1-metre female white shark off Evans Head River last December.Credit:DPI, "Fortunately there were no incidents of shark attacks along the NSW coastline during this period," a spokeswoman for the Department of Primary Industries said. Its states about 45 fish species have changed their distribution in south-eastern Australia in recent years with the change corresponding to warming observed in their local marine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-QeTbmchvQ. I also agree with the sentiment that possibly saving a few human lives (who were fully aware of the risks they were taking) doesn't necessarily warrant the killing of hundreds or even thousand of animals. How many attacks? Drone surveillance was also stepped up in the north and other regions such as Redhead, near Lake Macquarie, and Kiama. The impact on local business has also been significant and is at a stage where is is starting to affect non surfing families. A bit of a cull wont hurt , will make a lot of flake and chips for payback and when they eventually put the nets up, surely in this day and age we can hang rare earth magnets ( $5 ea. ) The systematic extermination of sparrows led to an upset of the ecological balance, and enabled crop-eating insects to proliferate. Photo supplied. Bottom line we have so many other ways to help us keep safe now compared to the past, but yet so many people refuse to use them. You could even take it a step further and have cage diving to watch the whites feeding on the whale and fuck it, go one further and clients can feast on some whale fillets off the bbq while they wait their turn to get in the cage. In fact, any river or billabong outside of Darwin metro in the NT. Yep, more nets. What sort of Burley are they using? The community here is now not just concerned about the one or two lives lost a year (most of the surfers still happily enter the water daily, knowing the risks) - it has become about the livelihood of tens of thousands of people. Never seen anyone burleying, currents too strong. However, the value of the shark nets remains a sore spot with scientists stating privately that it is impossible to know whether their presence made any significant reduction in shark-bite risk – other than to kill some of the animals they caught. *FFW - Few Fun Waves ... that's what it's all about for me. "We have around six million people who visit our beaches in NSW each year, so protecting our swimmers and surfers along our vast coastline is a massive task.". Sounds fair. For instance, an article in the Australian questioned how much shark scientists received in govt research money and yet "they still don't know anything." Nets clearly raise plenty of questions, but no doubt something needs to be done. As Munro said let's get something out there, get some ,confidence back and get some drum line data. I happen to agree with many of the sentiments of this video - Shark nets don't really work, the by-catch is unacceptable, the nets offer more of a perception of safety than TRUE safety, etc, etc. In the end one of the victims whom got recently attacked says it all with his classic "Don't tell mum" comment...else I'll have to take up soccer eh?? You can find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out Agree and that's exactly what Munro (Le Ba) has suggested. Ha, We have a lot of other coast to choose from.’ , Tracks 29/9/16, The irony is that we both want the same thing, most people here in Ballina don't want to kill sharks or marine life. Yet Madison Stewart, who made the below video, believes dropping ocean nets into the waters off Ballina is another kind of madness. Up until January 12, 2009, there have been 717 recorded attacks in Australia, of which 193 have been fatal.On average there have been 1.25 fatalities per year in Australia due to shark attack in the 20 years up until January 2008. I'm similarly dubious that nets are the silver bullet people think they are, yet short of any other solution I think they need to be dropped in. There was a great piece where Slater went surfing at Pipe with a bloke with depression. How the the hell did Madison get Vic to agree to a on camera interview ? If your going to protect an Apex predator and continue irresponsible commercial fishing practices, it would suggest an imbalance of marine diversity is more of a probability. finishing in Perth. heaps back in my day up there... Big mulloway.... Well if that happens I hope the people responsible are caught and jailed for their criminal acts. I surfed, with my 13 year old south of Broken Head at the same time as the last attack. To suggest funding for AiMS or CSIRO is a digression and you obviously know why. Near all east coast regional cities north and south land lock marine life. Think big. Not sure if I agree on 'none of us need to surf'. Doesn't seem to be in the 'very high activity', but rather coming out of the 'no activity' days, which links what what others, Freeride perhaps?, has posted about the moon phase at the time of each incident. Very reason for the protection status. Volume 61, Issue 3, which is on the stands now, will be their last. And it makes a huge difference when it comes to surviving a shark attack to be able to get prompt medical aid, given the obvious traumatic nature of a shark attack. Average 201 deaths per year Rather, lengths of net are dropped in at various intervals following the theory that it disrupts territorial patterns. Attacks are bad for business & this decision is about dollars, not sense. The nets do work well and people are most important and the ocean is a very big place so we should be able to fence off a little bit for ourselves. Their passionate opposition to shark nets is backed by a local marine biologist. Its interesting some people get very vocal on this issue but far greater animal welfare issues like those surrounding live animal exports are mostly ignored by the public, politicians and media. The greens have had 3 years and 3 million dollars and the situation is worse. I don't think it's the guys on the wall that's the problem. Wounds on Cooper Allen's leg after being bitten by a shark at Lighthouse Beach in Ballina in September. The specifics may be different: species, times of attack etc., but there was a rise in interactions and then they dropped off again. I sat on my balcony watched a pod of whale swim between the shark bouy and the break at sharpes beach this morning.Right where a shark net would be,who is going to free the whales that get trapped?? Its not like we haven’t given you a fair crack at the problem. No anger, Stu. So what you're saying is that we need to fix all of the other problems that are creating these "shark attack symptoms"? In any case, land-based predators do attack people across the world and the situation is almost always caused by humanity's relentless push to turn animal habitat into industrialized space. The irony is that we both want the same thing, most people here in Ballina don't want to kill sharks or marine life. Not safe in the water? Ballina has a vibrant marine ecosystem, Southern QLD beaches do not. I believe its totally irresponsible on the DPI part and they have dropped the ball. The shark is monitored until it leaves the area. So people can keep their business going, pay the mortgage etc....The encounters go beyond North wall as the last one was at Sharpes and again 4 weeks prior, so your advice is not sound. “We have had attacks — one of them was on Main Beach — but we have not had a fatality since the nets were installed. None of the world's real problems will be solved short of an all out revolution or a well curated corporate assassination list :). His doctorate is in public policy. To be honest I reckon there are less people fishing the walls these days. This line from it is very true. 5 times zero is still zero, a million times zero is still zero. "The north coast Ballina … Abattoir. Having witnessed Tadashi's incident I am happy that nets are going in until a better solution can be put on the table, as no one. So if the nets are successful in keeping the population of feeding scavenging sharks away from the shore at Ballina or wherever the fuck they are attacking where will they go. I know the father of one of the kids that helped the kid that was attacked at North Wall,he still has nightmares about the shark following them to shore.GWS are not endangered so we cull them to save,another victim. The tourists can be confident that there have been no shark attacks at patrolled beaches. If we develop it we can then remove all nets around the world. But there is a lot of misinformation out there about nets and their effectiveness. Invalid postcode. Radical Times In Reunion - Jeremy Flores - youtube. Shark nets - explained? I can't remember where I read it, but the theory wrt nets is not so much to catch everything in the vicinity (an impossibility), but rather stop sharks from setting up a territory. A NSW Surf Life Saving drone alerted Wilkinson to the shark circling at Sharpes Beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvorr7587dE. I haven’t surfed it in years! I ran your idea past a few friends around here and they thought it was great! You may have been able to ignore these cues twenty years ago, but no longer should you if your serious about safety. Cooper Allen, 17 at the time of shark bite last September, is back in the surf. Therefore you had more of the sharks close to shore at a time when surfers/divers starting venturing back into the water in bigger numbers (spring). The shark nets didn't stop these bull sharks from entering the canal systems, and of course there were no surf living help immediately after the event. That we had an unusually strong Leeuwin current(north to south) that pushed and trapped a relatively colder body of water close to shore. Stu could you develop this thought a little further: " Yet the only way to understand it is silence the anti-science murmurings and invest heavily in research...". I would love to see the government pour money into sustainable technology that protects marine life and humans. Efforts to reassure the public are multi-pronged. Less than six months later 32-year-old Matt Lee is fighting for his life and authorities have failed to act. You treat science with derision, strip funding, and then wonder why we don't understand what's happening out there or even know how to deal with it. Interesting title - I would argue there were as many subjective comments in that piece as there are coming the other way. plus a few pingers and other very clever cheap stuff off the nets to help the critters see them a bit better. Our dilemma is that we rely on our surf breaks to keep our economy buoyant, you know. As Madison raises in her video, one of the biggest conditions of the Gold Coast or Sydney nets is the proximity to SurfLifeSaving personnel. "Definitely, some people have gained some confidence with the nets. If so this is a win win situation, we could combine the harpoon trips with tourism, drag the whale out on a short line so the punters can get up close on the way out to sea. I think Peter Singer would call all this speciesism. It seems to me that Madison Stewart is one of the few people in our surfing tribe that understands the science of interconnectedness.

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