All shark nets provide is a false sense of security for swimmers and a death trap for marine wildlife.
The decision to retain shark nets at Sydney beaches this summer will not make it any safer for swimmers, but it will make it significantly more dangerous for many harmless marine animals.
But they did catch and drown many other marine animals – turtles, dolphins and rays – many of them endangered, all of them deserving of a better fate than this. Every year, a shocking 90 per cent of the catch in NSW shark nets is unintended non-target animals. Even critically endangered grey nurse sharks, with an east coast population on the brink, are killed on the nets every year.
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