A scuba diver has claimed trophy looking fishers are going to disturbing lengths to catch sharks.
Diver and veterinarian Lisa Jane Hills advised Perth radio station 6PR pig carcasses and small useless sharks are being put within the water to draw larger sharks to shore.
Hunters are then catching the marine predators off seashores the place Perth residents swim, she claimed.
"Majority of the time they don't come that near the shore," she advised host Gary Adshead.
"They're really utilizing kayaks to drop them out and utilizing issues to weigh them down like concrete.
"Individuals aren't conscious of what is going on on till they see these sharks being pulled in and these individuals are then put within the media as heroes however actually they do not give a rattling concerning the lives of different beachgoers – it is for his or her ego and their Instagram."
Hills has efficiently advocated bans on leisure shark fishing and looking.
She mentioned she was just lately despatched a photograph of a shark carcass together with her named carved into it.
The diver mentioned she upset fishermen after a marketing campaign to stop helium balloons from getting used for shark fishing.
"You'll be able to think about how shocked I used to be after I obtained that," she mentioned.
"I by no means thought that anybody would really go that low."