Shark strategy-AU

Burleying up the beaches should do the trick.
This policy is causing a lot of heated discussion down here. More political huff and puff than anything though at the end of the day.
This is the Govt media release:
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Premier Colin Barnett and Fisheries Minister Troy Buswell today announced new measures to address public safety and help mitigate the risk sharks pose to water users.

These include:

•Setting baited drum lines to catch large sharks one kilometre from shore, with vessels monitoring the drum lines. These drum lines will be set along heavily used beaches in the metropolitan area and the South-West, and will be deployed 24 hours a day initially from January 2014 through until April 2014.

•Boosting the response to shark attack by immediately setting drum lines, leaving them in place for longer and setting them in a wider area. More vessels will be available for faster response to an attack.

•The long term establishment of specific Coastal Shark Management Zones along the coast, to be determined by geographical and environmental features and water use profiles (for example, swimming, surfing, diving).

•Developing a ‘Tool Kit’ for communities in each zone in partnership with the State Government to mitigate the risks of a shark attack at local beaches. Measures could include education pamphlets, aerial and beach patrols, signage, providing beachside trauma packs and the deployment of drum lines. Each plan will be reviewed annually.

•A community recovery policy to ensure support for communities affected by a shark attack.
Mr Barnett said the new measures would improve public safety and build on the State Government’s strong approach to shark hazard management.

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Another option could be to buy a tag for the capture of a White Shark.
That way numbers and strict locations have to be adhered to and the money goes back into the Fisheries.

$2,000 - $5,000 for a single tag would not be outrageous IMO.

For Bluefin Tuna 7,500 tonnes per annum would be a sound biomass to take but we take a very unhealthy 36,000 tonnes. Atlantic bluefin tuna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I see no problems with harvesting a small percentage of White Sharks in areas where the population has exploded as long as it is done in a sustainable way. If we take a sensible percentage of the biomass from specific populations only then its a win win but not every body wants to do that homework are like to use 1970's data to propel the propaganda.

I like your logic, lets hope others think your way but truth is they enjoy extrapolating data to suite their ideas and very seldom is it about factual data on both sides worldwide.