Shark “trophy hunters” are finding themselves increasingly on the outer as the community demands a line drawn between fishing for food and hunting for sport.
Since 2000,20 people have been killed in shark attacks off the WA coast.
Lifeguards patrolled Maroubra Beach and confirmed the sighting of the shark around 7.50am.
In the heat of emotional upheaval,a shark cull for some might feel good today,tomorrow or next week,but it won’t achieve the ultimate goal of what we all want - improving people’s safety.
The noted conservationist and filmmaker says sharks do not swim around thinking they want to bite humans. We intrude into their world.
Today on Please Explain,explainer reporter Sherryn Groch joins Bianca Hall to take a deep dive into the mindset of these fascinating and increasingly threatened apex predators.
Jack Shaw,15,was bitten on his back by a shark as he tried to free a friend from its jaws during a swim at Ocean Grove on Monday night.
A man has died after being bitten by a shark at Shelly Beach on the NSW North Coast on Sunday morning.
The man travelled on a fishing charter overnight to Exmouth,where ambulance crews took him to hospital.
An Australian debate about whether to describe shark bites as “attacks” or “encounters” has made to US TV networks,stirring both jokes and a dismissal.
The man was taken to Cable Beach by boat to a waiting ambulance. Authorities suspect it was 3-metre tiger shark.