“It’s not really public knowledge what gets caught and what gets killed,” Mr Chilcott said. He said since 2001, approximately 55 humpback whales had been caught in Gold Coast nets. “There have been petitions, recommendations from within their own government as well as from third parties, I do wonder what it will take for this to be taken more seriously.”, Local free diver Shaun Snell has been diving off the Gold Coast for six years and has never seen a Great White shark. Mr Clarke said approximately 90,000 animals had been caught by the shark nets in Queensland since 1962. “Seeing Nick out there I was just thinking if it was one of our loved ones or friends out there, you’d want someone to go out there and give them the best chance of surviving,” Ms Bain said. "If there are better remedies and solutions that can be found, I would be more than happy to investigate but let's get all the scientific (data) out there in the next week to show us what additional options we should do.
Sharks can swim under the nets and around the ends of the nets.
Ms Palaszczuk said their efforts were worthy of a nomination for the state's bravery awards. The attack has reignited the debate about shark safety nets and drum lines. The Gold Coast is one of Australia's most famous tourist destinations, popular for its long white-sand beaches, surfing breaks and inland waterways.
One witness told the Courier Mail newspaper Mr Slater had been bitten across the upper leg, and "it was pretty much all taken". It comes after Queensland Fisheries said two sharks were caught on a drum line and in a shark net near Greenmount Beach in the hours after the attack. Tuesday’s fatality was the first of its kind in 62 years on a Gold Coast beach. The strategy is a part of the Fisheries Shark Control Program, which was last updated in August this year. In June, two surfers were fatally attacked in separate incidents off nearby northern New South Wales. A shark net is a submerged net placed around beaches to reduce shark attacks on swimmers.The majority of Shark nets used are gillnets which is a wall of netting that hangs in the water and captures the targeted sharks by entanglement. “That’s not to say they’re not there, but I think it kind of speaks to how unnecessary the nets are, especially when the sharks can easily swim under and around the nets.”, Currumbin Surf School has been open for 27 year, but owner Sam Chilcott says he has never seen a shark in the water. "It's one of those things, it's Mother Nature. “They’re intended to catch ‘resident sharks’ and sharks that pass through the area while feeding on bait fish.”. "It was probably about the same circumference as a basketball⦠and there was a tooth still lodged in the fibreglass which I had to remove," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Watch the brand new event series The Good Lord Bird now on Stan. “This morning the Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol and the shark control program contractor are on-site,” Mr Furner said. A close friend of the Gold Coast real estate agent said Mr Slater “wouldn’t want to see the animal destroyed”. “They’re non-lethal, and other marine life passing by won’t be impacted by them,” she said. Currumbin Alley Surf School owner Sam Chilcott is another Gold Coast local who spends a lot of time in the water. He said Apex Harmony were the leaders in the campaign against shark nets, and had many other organisations following them. "While the shark caught on Wednesday was a tiger shark, experts were still working to confirm what species of shark was involved in Tuesday's attack. Brisbane News, Australia News and World News, Shark control measures are designed to protect the public from the possibility of a shark attack, but many believe current methods are dangerous and inhumane.
There are just 27 shark nets … Fisheries Minister Mark Furner said the state’s shark control program stretched across 86 of Queensland’s most popular beaches, from the Gold Coast to Cairns. They frantically tried to bring him to shore. “As far as whether I support them… I don’t know,” he said.
Photo: Courtesy Sea Shepherd. Mr Clarke said during this migration season alone, at least five whales had become entangled in the nets between Southport and Burleigh Heads, a situation that could prove fatal without human intervention, particularly for whale calves. Paramedics confirmed the man, 46, was already dead when he was brought on to the beach by fellow surfers and lifeguards at around 5pm. “Together with the minister, I will be analysing what is the better remedy, maybe a bit of both,” he said. Lydia Lynch is Queensland political reporter for the Brisbane Times, Tiger shark caught as Premier praises 'heroes' who tried to help victim. ", One man who witnessed the attack described the chaos in the moments afterwards. “The location has had shark control equipment in place since 1968 – and has eight drumlines and one net – and these were checked yesterday morning. Shark nets are in place on 85 Queensland beaches and this is the first recorded fatality on a netted Queensland beach. NSW records three new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19, Majority of PlayStation 4 games 'even better' on new PS5 console, North Korea unveils massive new ballistic missile in military parade, Pieces of wetsuit found in search for WA surfer attacked by shark, Chances of finding WA shark attack victim alive 'pretty slim', Shark swims beneath Gold Coast surfers on drone footage. 46-year-old Nick Slater from the Gold Coast has died after being attacked by a shark at Coolangatta on Queensland’s Gold Coast. "I am advised that a shark has been caught at the location on shark control program equipment this morning. Tuesday’s fatal attack was the third in Queensland this year. Mr Slater's Instagram account is flooded with pictures of the beach, coastline and his water adventures.Credit:Instagram - @nick_slater_property.
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