Nick Mercer, East Ballina. I believe that current policies and practices regarding the management of shark populations is putting ocean goers lives at risk. Those of us that choose to surf, swim and dive in the ocean are a stoic community - we’ve decided to accept the risk of a shark attack when in the ocean because it’s a habitat that belongs more to the shark than it does to us.

Nicholle Smith, Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation. The ARFF has concerns about the announcement by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority yesterday of the deaths of four dolphins and two seals as a consequence of industrial scale fishing in the small pelagic fishery by the Geelong Star on its first fishing trip.