P co said...
I'm the first to admit I am no shark expert and I don't know if there really are any. But logic tells me that if the same 14' Great White has been repeatedly setting off the monitors on the sensors 200m off our metro beaches day after day, this shark poses a threat. It is only a matter of time before it chooses to attack a mammal from it's area and there are more people than whales, dolphins or seals where it is hanging.
For all we know the same animal may be responsible for more than one attack?
I'm not a big one for killing things but every day hundreds of snapper, dhu fish and multitudes of other fish are caught and there is no mention of a cull.
Let's catch the ones that hang around the popular beach area's, I am sure the experts would also learn alot from examining what they have been eating as well.

Well said P co but I doubt the authorities would want to take out one of the very few tagged Whites around. I strongly believe they should be putting the effort into tagging a lot more of them.

I have a question now.

i have been asking a lot of questions of late about tagged sharks. From the minister, the fisheries dept as well as the fisheries guys responsible for tagging. I contacted REC fish and i spoke with the Boating industry association. I contacted the company in Canada even who helped with the technology.

I've given it to the media know as i can see a big cover up.

I have got no answers at all about how many GW sharks have been tagged in WA by our State government. Shark alarm creator told me he had been reliably confirmed 12 sharks in 4 years. No one will dispute this figure from any of the above contacts either.

I also have asked how many "Pings" or contacts the Tags have had with the beacons and got nothing. So why out of the blue have we over the last few days or week started getting high readings from tags being activated Seriously is it just one shark shooting back and forth at speed like a ball in a pin ball machine? Or is it that we have more than a few sharks all of a sudden swimming by all the beacons?

Could it be that we have been getting these "Pings" before but fisheries did not want the public to know? Or is it that now that our fisheries is trying to value add our export dollars of shark fin soup so they are trying to help scare us into believing that there's more sharks than we know about

Either way something has changed over the last week and i don't know the answer but i will say it looks very fishy IMHO[}:)]

moohan said...

jbshack said...
I have a question now.

i have been asking a lot of questions of late about tagged sharks. From the minister, the fisheries dept as well as the fisheries guys responsible for tagging. I contacted REC fish and i spoke with the Boating industry association. I contacted the company in Canada even who helped with the technology.

I've given it to the media know as i can see a big cover up.

I have got no answers at all about how many GW sharks have been tagged in WA by our State government. Shark alarm creator told me he had been reliably confirmed 12 sharks in 4 years. No one will dispute this figure from any of the above contacts either.

I also have asked how many "Pings" or contacts the Tags have had with the beacons and got nothing. So why out of the blue have we over the last few days or week started getting high readings from tags being activated Seriously is it just one shark shooting back and forth at speed like a ball in a pin ball machine? Or is it that we have more than a few sharks all of a sudden swimming by all the beacons?

Could it be that we have been getting these "Pings" before but fisheries did not want the public to know? Or is it that now that our fisheries is trying to value add our export dollars of shark fin soup so they are trying to help scare us into believing that there's more sharks than we know about

Either way something has changed over the last week and i don't know the answer but i will say it looks very fishy IMHO[}:)]

3rd hand info so I wouldn't bet my house on it, But I heard that fisheries managed to tag 4 GW's at D9 recently, after drawing a bit of a blank in previous weeks. Not sure how long the tags produce a signal for, but maybe it's the fact there has been 4 freshly tagged sharks metro. Watching shark alarm with the beacons being set off from Floreat, to Scabs, To North Beach, then Scabs-Floreat-Cities, didn't it sound like the same shark patrolling up and down parallel to the coast?

The 4 tagged at D9 i had heard about but once again fisheries say they no nothing about it. So who do you believe. Third hand info i agree but when fisheries wont answer anything at all. I have now contacted the Greens and Labour and asked for the question to be presented into parliament.

I just want an answer that snot that hard is it

Seems to be

doggie said...
What is D9?

australia.greatestdivesites.com/western_australia/perth/d9

Shipwreck in Cockburn sound from an old dredger

doggie said...
What is D9?

Its a spot that gets fished hard out off Cockburn sound. The Pink Snapper congregate there a bit to breed making for easy pickings for fishermen. In return the fisherman tend to loose fish to the sharks so guess what hangs around the area this time of year