The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 5: October 1995
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Australian White Shark News
White shark. Copywrite 1989 by Sid Cook. All rights reserved.
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Earlier this year, the South Australian Fisheries Department circulated
A discussion paper which included a proposal for the protection of the
great white shark in State waters. Responses to this paper are still
being considered. In September, the Australian Seafood Industry
Council announced that it had adopted a recomendation to seek an
end to targeted fishing for this species in the waters of all Australian
states, and would be writing to the states' fisheries management
agencies to seek their views on the recommendation. (Targeted
fishing is actually only a very limited activity in Australia; far more
white sharks are taken as by-catch in fisheries or beach meshing
programmes.) This recommendation has been welcomed and
supported by the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
We hope to feature an article updating readers on progress with
these initiatives in the next issue of Shark News (No. 6).
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