Northern NSW

Still a crap thread imo

mmmmmmmmmmmmm ...... Roasted Murphy's

OK I may has a solution to the attacks.

Surfing have become popular over the past 40 years,so cull all surfers born after 1975. there should slow down the death rate.

I was surprised by the comment in this post below talking about NSW and netting.
In fact, approximately 63% of shark incidents at ocean beaches in New South Wales have occurred at netted beaches.

http://www.seashepherd.org.au/apex-harmony/overview/new-south-wales.html

SO i started to read this
www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/276029/Report-into-the-NSW-Shark-Meshing-Program.pdf

It is from 2009 but its the report on the netting program in NSW. I was very surprised to see that the above quote to be very possibly true. Who would have thought

Although slightly out of context as it seems Wobbegongs are rather aggressive. The pages of interest that talk about attacks and beaches that are netted is from page 27 to 35..



At face value, those increases could incorrectly be construed as an increase in the number of sharks, and/or the rate of attacks. However, such conclusions are not supported by either: international statistics on attacks; the declining catch numbers and rates of the SMP (Figure 10, Tables 12 and 13); decreasing commercial catches in NSW up to 2005 (DPI 2006b); decreasing numbers of sharks and rays in trawl grounds off the NSW coast (Graham et al. 2001); or the increasing resident and visitor population of NSW, which for the sake of this analysis will be used as a surrogate for beach visitors. The inherent assumptions in the following analysis are that: the SMP has continued to catch the same proportion of the population of sharks; and that beach users also represent a consistent proportion of the population over time. Accepting those limitations, the relatively small increase in the number of shark attacks since 1900 is somewhat in contrast to the increasing population of NSW, the Sydney region in particular, and the increased amount and variety of recreation focussed in coastal waters. The estimated resident population of NSW has risen from 1.4 million in 1901, to in excess of 6.9 million at June 2008 (preliminary estimate - ABS 2008). Add to that approximately 2.8 million international overnight visitors and 24 million domestic overnight visitors to NSW each year, more than 10 million of which stay in Sydney (TRA 2008). On the basis of resident population alone, and all other things being equal, one would expect there to be a corresponding five-fold increase in the number of attacks over that time period. On the contrary, there has been a relatively small increase (<30%) in attacks relative to those population increases over the longer term, which coupled with decreasing catches in the SMP, suggests that there are relatively fewer sharks in coastal waters of NSW than there were in the early to mid 1900s. The relatively small increase in the number of attacks could be due to a variety of interacting factors, including but not limited to: a decrease in shark numbers; an improvement in waste and effluent treatment and disposal, the poor state of which is thought to have contributed to abnormally high numbers of sharks in the 1920 and 1930s (Paxton 2006); changes in bathing patterns; and/or increased awareness. Although as previously stated there are no data about beach usage, the relatively high annual rate of more than five attacks per year since 2000 suggests that this period is more reflective of the anecdotally high numbers of people that use coastal waters. This limited qualitative analysis suggests that the risk of shark attack, particularly a fatal one, on ocean beaches is extremely low.