Marine Life Paying Price For Shark Netting

THIS spring and summer, more than 100 dolphins, sea turtles, whales, rays - and even dugongs and sea lions - will be trapped in nets designed to protect NSW swimmers from sharks. However, community concern for the plight of marine animals that pose little or no threat to beachgoers has prompted renewed calls for the meshing to be scrapped entirely. The nets, 150m long and 6m deep which go up on 51 beaches from Newcastle to Wollongong this month, are designed to prevent attacks from predatory sharks like great whites, tigers and bulls...