Several Sydney beaches around will be closed until at least Sunday morning after the death of a dolphin and shark sightings near Manly.
Acting fisheries minister Reece Whitby has labelled those who made the threat as knuckleheads,and urged people to report illegal activity.
Lisa Hills,a campaigner,was recently sent an image of her name carved into a shark carcass left at a jetty. “I am definitely in shock,” she said.
The rollout of drone technology has seen the number of shark sightings increase sharply in recent years.
A hammerhead shark sighting closed Palm Beach on December 27. A Surf Life Saving drone pilot tracked the two-metre shark.
Mandurah twin brothers’ close encounter with a two-metre shark left them shaken but undeterred.
An Adelaide teenager has escaped serious injury after being attacked by a large shark while ski-surfing.
Their determination to bump their heads,eyes,gills and sides against the sharks strongly indicates the behaviour is about dislodging parasites.
The 38-year-old father of three was fishing off a boat with two friends and his young son when he was attacked,his arm ‘almost severed’.
After a lifetime of swimming with and filming sharks,the Sydney conservationist understands them better than anyone else.
A young surfer was bitten on the arm while surfing at the Central Coast beach on Wednesday morning.