NSW government changes to the Shark Management Program include the removal of shark nets on beaches from 31 March 2025.

NSW Greens MP and healthy oceans spokesperson Cate Faehrmann is calling on the Minns government to abandon the use of shark nets in NSW after yesterday’s release of a shocking report into the numbers of animals caught in nets over the last summer.

Animal conservationist groups are appalled at a decision by the NSW government to reinstate shark nets in coastal waters starting in spring.

The first whale entanglement happened at the Gold Coast early on Monday evening when a young sub-adult whale was caught in shark nets.

A humpback whale and her calf became entangled in shark nets off the coast of Surfers Paradise last Thursday.

The natural territory of a shark is the ocean and while it is rare, there are shark attacks on humans. How we manage the human-shark interaction is open for your response with the annual survey of ‘local sentiments about the current approach’ to shark management now open.

Queensland saw its third whale caught in shark nets yesterday as Sea Shepherd calls for the removal of shark nets during the whale migration season on teh Queensland coast.

Once again shark nets have caught a whale as by-catch, this time off Snapper Rocks in Queensland off the southernmost point of the Gold Coast.

Byron Rangers and Sea Shepherd Byron Bay are launching the film Envoy: Shark Cull with a screening and live Q&A this Wednesday 21 July.

Shocking pictures of marine life killed or injured by Queensland shark nets have been obtained under FOI and released this morning by Sea Shepherd Australia, showing dolphins, rays and turtles caught in nets.