Conservationists in Australia are worried that research appraise the identification number ofgreat whitened sharks may be usedto rationalize a cull . It come as broad politician from Western Australia exceed a motion to debate whether or not the federal government should allow states to kill corking whites at the Liberal ’s federal council in June .
The debate that has been simmer in Australia regarding how to deal with sharks has been reignited following thedeath of 17 - twelvemonth - old Laeticia Brouwer , off the coast of Western Australia , after she was attacked by what is remember to have been a great whitened while surfing . This is the 15th someone to be killed in Australian waters by sharks over the last 17 years , with all but two of those people being surfers or diver .
The idea of shark culling , while democratic among some politician , is still a very controversial pattern among the worldwide public . Back in 2014 , the government in Western Australia introduced a policy to charm and stamp out big sharks using baited membranophone lines after the Union government made the state nontaxable from internal environment laws that prohibit the kill of great whites .
This recitation , however , was subsequently come across with wide - plate protests , not only in Western Australia but in other Australian states , as well as further afield in New Zealand and even South Africa . The indiscriminate targeting of shark , coupled with the fact that other species may have unwittingly been getting killed , meant that it was finally drop , although drum lines were still deploy in specific circumstances .
The Greens party senator Peter Whish - Wilson has now accused the Liberals of politicizing the death of Brouwer and using it to push their agenda to delist the with child whitened . It is cogitate that the Liberals are wanting to use the information being collected by theCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation(CSIRO ) , who will put out its official report on the number of great Edward Douglas White Jr. afterwards this year , to justify the reinstatement of a shark reject .
But there are difficulty when it comes tosanctioning a reject of great Andrew Dickson White . Australia is one of 124 nations to have sign the UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species , which includes the far - ranging great white shark . Under this code , they must provide protective cover for the mintage , and delisting them would ask a two - thirds bulk of the signer present to vote for the modification .
Conservationists and surfers alike have been arguing for alternatives to shark net and bait lines , such a beach patrols and spotter aircraft . But due to the limitations of these methods , there has also been increased focus on personal aegis devices , like the shark shield , which sends out a magnetic field to deter the creatures .
