pick Byron Bay, and say net off Clarke’s Beach
area and say if people want to go to a beach
where they know they’re not going to get
attacked by a shark, they can go there.
“I don’t know if they could make nets that
could go right down to the bottom (of the sea
floor), but I can’t see it working on the Northern
Rivers, there - there’s too much coastline, too
much marine life. You’ve just got whales this
time of year going up and back, you’ve got
turtles, just so much marine life - everything.
“There certainly appears to be a massive
increase (in attacks), but it’s hard to get a full
grip on it because we don’t know all the facts
and figures, we only know what we’re told via
the media. They stopped the whaling, so there’s
more whales and numbers have increased,
so there’s more whale food around, and the
predators will follow. There’s whales that die
and those predators will follow the whale trail.
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I didn’t want any sharkbashing stories to go out Mike Hoile
“As well as that, they’re saying the fish stocks
are down on the outer reefs, I mean I’m
reading that. They’re saying the ocean’s being
over-fished and the sharks have got to eat
something, so I just think the sharks that were
further out, that now haven’t got