'False sense of safety': Push to remove shark nets from Australia's most famous beach

Shark nets are ineffective and simply "making a false sense of security" one Sydney mayor claims as she pushes for them to be faraway from Bondi, Australia's most well-known seaside.

The push comes weeks after a report on the 2021-2022 season discovered 325 of 376 animals caught in nets have been non-targeted, critically endangered species.

Chatting with At this time, Mayor of Waverley LGA Paula Masselos mentioned there are higher methods of maintaining the neighborhood secure.

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There is a push to take away shark nets from Bondi, Australia's hottest seaside. (Flavio Brancaleone)

Fifty one shark nets are put in over the NSW shoreline. They're in place September - April annually(9News)

"Shark nets are very previous know-how," she mentioned.

"They have been first launched in 1937. We're within the twenty first century now. I consider we are able to do a lot, significantly better.

(They) are solely 150m lengthy, six metres excessive and set at a depth of about 10m. They don't seem to be there to truly create a barrier between swimmers and sharks, however they kind of assist disrupt a few of the swimming patterns.

"While you have a look at Bondi, it's really a kilometre lengthy. So the shark internet is not creating an enormous barrier in any respect.

"I feel it is really making a false sense of security."

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Waverly Mayor Paula Masselos has really useful the state authorities take away shark nets in her LGA. (At this time)

Masselos believes SMART drumlines, aerial drone surveillance and "listening buoys" are rather more environment friendly and detecting sharks and mitigating the dangers of assault.

In complete, 51 shark nets are put in in seashores between Newcastle and Wollongong; a 250 kilometre stretch of coast.

The nets are solely in place between September to April annually.

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19 weak inexperienced turtles have been caught in shark nets throughout NSW.(Sea Shepard Australia)

Nice hammerhead sharks that are critically endangered have been caught and killed in NSW shark nets this 12 months.(Sea Shepard Australia)

Waverly shouldn't be the primary council lobbying the state authorities to take away shark nets. Central Coast MP Adam Crouch needs to see his voters change into the primary location in NSW to ban the nets.

The shark meshing program goals to discourage three goal species of shark in accordance with the DPI; these are tiger sharks, bull sharks and nice white sharks.

"They're the three sharks which are most ceaselessly concerned in critical shark bites in NSW," it mentioned.

Nice white sharks have been liable for all deadly NSW shark assaults for the previous two years, with the state clocking the best variety of assaults within the nation over this era.

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Simon Nellist was killed in a shark assault on the north finish of Little Bay seaside in Sydney's east.(Equipped)

In February 2022 diving teacher Simon Nellist, 35, turned the first individual to be killed in a Sydney shark assault in almost 60 years.

Nellist was coaching for an open water ocean swim when he was mauled by a fantastic white shark, "a minimum of three metres" lengthy at Little Bay.

In response to the assault the DPI put in 15 SMART drumlines alongside the coast from Little Bay Seashore to Bondi - capturing two massive tiger sharks within the week following.

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The animals have been captured, tagged and launched.