Stockton Nobbys Newcastle NSW SHARK MESHING (BATHER) Bar Dixon Park PROTECTION PROGRAM Merewether Redhead A typical shark net in NSW waters installed from 1st September to 30 April, for a minimum of 14 days of each month. Set parallel to the beach, 500 metres from the shore. Sharks are able to swim around and over it. Swansea-Blacksmiths Whale pinger Dolphin pinger Floats Caves Catherine Hill Bay 4m Tiger Shark 150m mesh size Lakes White Shark 6m Bull Shark 60 X 60 cm Bronze Whaler Dusky Whaler Soldiers TARGET SHARKS Marine MAMMALS, reptiles & seabirds have The Entrance drowned in shark nets, INCLUDING Shelly whales, dolphins, seals, dugongs and turtles Around 40% 51 Beaches Terrigal Spinner Shark North Avoca of shark entanglements Target Sharks Avoca occur on the beach that have NOT Short fin Mako Copacabana side of the net been implemented Common Blacktip Shark MacMasters in shark attacks Broadnose Sevengill Shark Killcare Silky Shark Umina Palm Since the installation of SHARK NETS in there has been Whale 1937 Avalon 1 fatality,16 injuries,10 encounters at shark meshed beaches Bilgola Newport Mona Vale Shark nets indiscriminately capture Warriewood North Narrabeen target and non target sharks and rays, including Narrabeen Dee Why PROTECTED AND ENDANGERED species irrespective of age and sex. Curl Curl Harbord Queenscliff Contrary to popular belief, shark nets are NOT designed to North Steyne Their purpose is: Manly protect swimmers. “culling populations of large aggressive sharks, and deterring large sharks from Bondi establishing territories adjacent to metropolitan swimming beaches” Bronte DPI Report into the NSW Shark Meshing (Bather Protection) Program 2009 Coogee Maroubra A number of shark nets have gone missing during storms. These “ghosts nets”silently drift through the oceans killing and destroying everything in their path. Wanda Elouera North Cronulla BITE AT BONDI Despite SHARK NETS Cronulla in place at one of Sydney’s most popular, BONDI BEACH Lifeguards not on Wattamolla and famous ocean duty NORTH TASMAN SEA Garie beaches, a surfer lost his left hand to a White Shark Location of attack in 2009. Prior to the SHARK ATTACK FILE incident, target shark LOCATION: Bondi Beach captures at the Bondi net Shark Net DATE: 12 February 2009 Coledale TIME: 7:30 pm Austinmer includes a Whaler Shark in Set 500m from 800 metres VICTIM: Male Surfer beach INJURY: Left hand, severely severed, Thirroul March 2008, and a White resulting in amputation. Shark in December 2005 SPECIES: White Shark 2.5 metres NOTES: Run out tide, heavy rain in previous days, sunset 8:18 pm. North Wollongong Water “teeming with bait fish” South Wollongong WWW.ATLANTISPORTSTEPHENS.COM.AU.