About time should leave the hooks out there.

The big problem will be positively identifying the shark as the one involved in the attack. 

 This large shark was hooked up in the vicinity after the attack good enough for me  , it’s a no brainer knock it on the head . This needs to be done , it’s the right thing to do in regards to this tragic event and I couldn’t give a rats A hole about all these peanuts on their soapbox sobbing on behalf of a fuggen shark ,  get your priorities right ffs . Well done fisheries . 

 If theres a risk to us delete.

Actually ironic that alot of the money funding the save the sharks cause is from oil companies trying to get green credentials. They are also lobbying for massive marine parks on the other side off the world to offset their operations... being good corporate citizens listed on multiple stock exchanges. 

These green peanuts will soon tax us for breathing carbon out cause its pollution... poluttion that plants need to grow...

 how long will it be untill simon peterfry pops his head up with his shark resuce dingy again , the tosser 

As a former shark fisherman, I reckon its a complete waste to kill a big shark and tow it out to sea and dump it. One thing that was drilled in to me as child that if you are going to kill something then you must have a use for it and not waste it.

This whole thing has been blown right out of proportion by the media frenzy on all tv stations and radio talkback in an attempt to catch those who have no bloody idea what is involved. One reporter states some hours after the shark was dragged out to sea that she had no idea if the shark was still alive, when someone with any sort of a brain know its well and truly dead. Just shows how they drip feed an unknowing public to keep it fresh in their minds

 You don't hear anything from these moronic greeny parasites about the tonnes of krill taken from the ocean to make fancy vitamin pills etc. Reckon the impact that makes would far out weigh a few great whites biting the dust.

 Uncle, utterly stupid to compare to gorilla which should NOT have been killed. That child's parents should be! 

 Uncle, utterly stupid to compare to gorilla which should NOT have been killed. That child's parents should be! 

Just remember our alp leader was down with the greens supporting them all the way couple of years ago. Greens ALP same

 It's bull--it. It's only the start . For 20 years of my fishing life never seen one. ( always wanted to)Pro boats amature fishing the lot. Breeding pair back of Carnac back then. Last ten years many encounters warnbro sound and cockburn . And very close to back of garden island. Tub rock the lot. $2000 plus fixing boat few years back when one split my hull while fishing with peter on d9. 1 meter long split lifted boat out 1/2 meter when hit. I will give credit to surfers . They have balls and skill. Dogs crocs instant gone .whites  different story. Iam not saying open season on them at all. Great creature by all means. To many atm . Only start of season for them . More to come no dought . Can't stop enjoying life . Surfing, diving. Fishing. Something needs to be done sooner than later. And yes cars more dangerous but does that stop anyone using them. No

 Get a grip rub them out then what, just because they are cpable of taking a human out panic and kill them. Learn to live with it or stay off the water and stay home.

 Just take them off the protected list for a few years to cut numbers a bit. Love looking at old photos of Alf Dean (I think thats his name?) with some of the brutes he used to catch off Ceduna.

Prefer to see them hunted for sport than massacred on a drum line. Even though the end result is the same

 Doubt you'll see me fishing for whites In a naiad 

Good job

 seriously cant understand why people get thier knickers in such a f%^cking knot its just a bloody big fish we take tonnes every day and for some reason people like these ones you dont see the save a tuna banner out there get a grip 

 Is why can you catch any size hammerhead??? I would say they would be more endangered . Few numbers need to come down . 

Look, condolonces to the family - I'm not for anyone getting killed doing what they love.

But when are surfers going to stop wearing seal costumes and impersonating an injured seal?

If you put on a gazelle suit and walked slowly through the African plains people would say you are crazy!!! Oh dear, I got eaten by a lion - HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!?

Yes, we have created the problem by reducing polution along the coastline and improved our sustainability practices to the point there are an abundance of wildlife and food along the coast. I'm sure there are more surfers now that there was 20 years ago. Along with more fish and more predators. Recipe for disaster.

Wetsuits and surfboards need to start making use of modern technology. By that I mean they need to start emitting light. LED lights or ultra violet lights (I don't know what they need) sewn into the wetsuits and embedded in boards need to confuse the predators. A shark never tried to bite the sun, only used it to find shadows above to bite.

Just my 2c.

 did they gut the bloody thing to see if the leg was in its gut or did i miss somthing 

 you missed something reports say leg was recovered at the time of the attack. If you look at pictures of the scene you can see the poor buggers board was bitten in half. The shark they caught was 4.2 mtrs long plenty big enough to do that kind of damage. I am happy that they have disposed of the correct shark. Greenies can't have it all ways if as they say they r endangered ie not many around, then in the next breath winge that they may catch the wrong shark. Tells me there not that endangered. As i stated in another post if yr dinkum about saving the oceans save the krill it starts at the bottom of the food chain 

 We’ve had this debate once or twice on this site before .. Some will say thin them out and others will say leave them alone and it’ll go on and on in circles with a few hissy fits in between . 

Great whites have been protected for many years because they were close to endangered, now that they are back to their correct numbers( which is why we were protecting them) we should endanger them again?

I love diving and surfing and I do it while accepting the risk, if you're really that worried and think they should be destroyed in order for you to safely enjoy swimming perhaps a backyard pool is in order?

I'm all for eradicating the shark that attacked him but unless its caught almost immediatly there's no way to tell. It was most likely a different shark in the wrong place wrong time

If people like us dont give a shit, who will?

I am kind of indifferent when it comes to this shark kill.

My issue is with towing it to sea, what a waste. The reports are that Fisheries towed it to sea (and took samples). I would think it would be worth more to research landing it whole and allowing a dissection of the animal. Dissection could reveal at what stage of the reproductive cycle the shark is at, stomach contents could reveal recent prey items (regardless of whether the shark ate the poor buggers leg), a better inspection of the animals overall health - was this a large old sick/unhealthy shark that was looking for an easy meal is this supportive of a rogue theory? It's just crap, everyone harps on about not knowing enough about sharks, and we get a golden opportunity to know more and instead we tow it to sea.

This was a large shark, and I'm sure the process is not cheap, but preserving the animal and putting on display somewhere would be worth while? People are mindful of scaring tourists away from WA beaches but could a handy collection of well preserved White Sharks on display could even bring tourism to the are?

Or at the very least, let researchers dissect the animal. Take the jaws out and sell them? Put that cash back into research or any other charitable cause. I'm sure the Jaws of a large white shark would fetch at least $10k at a guess.

Killing and towing to sea is a waste, that is the easy part of the whole shark debate.

Gotta laugh at all the sheep on the numerous Facebook pages all repeating each other.

Last I checked humans were the alpha species meaning the land and water are both ours. Should just chum up and hit another 15 of the pricks with smokies.

"Should just chum up and hit another 15 of the pricks with smokies."

Should put a sign at Perth Airport for tourists - 'welcome to the wild wild west, beware of knuckle dragers carrying smokies'

If it's a different shark that means that there have been 2 big great whites in the same area within 24hours of each other. Some people would say that's concerning, others would say they are just always there. The thing I can't understand is why people have their knickers in a knot about sharks? Rogue animals get killed all the time including croc's up North. Maybe all this stuff is a bit closer to home.

Don't agree with towing it out to sea, I'm sure there would've been some researchers frothing to get their hands on it.

People dressing up like seals? lol - silliest thing I've ever heard. Even if they're in bright orange their silhouette is still black. There is plenty of research being done into what ocean go-ers can wear to deter sharks but with so many unknowns under the sea, it's hard to have concrete data.

What can be done to reduce the risk of tragedies like this from accruing again. Not a lot I think.

We all have ideas that we think can mitigate the risk of being taken by a shark whilst using the oceans recreational, at one end of the spectrum we have the kill all the sharks type and the other end make it against the law to go in the oceans for what ever reason.

At the end of the day we are talking about humans and their desire to enjoy a recreational activity that takes us into the environment that is shared by a great many creatures that have lived there for thousands of years and which by there very nature are a risk to our life.

From the smallest predator the krunji ( not sure about spelling)jelly fish to the most prominent, the great white shark. It behoves all of us to take responsibility for safe guarding our lives by using common sense and education to reduce the risk to ourselves as much as possible.

we learn not to cross the roads in heavy fast traffic because there is a risk you will get run over by a car and seriously injured or fatally injured. Those that do weigh up the risks and choose to risk a crossing, others look for a cross walk or lights and use those facilities.

Since time has begun humans have done things that have put their lives at risk for the sole reason of getting the adrenalin rush and excitement that such activities bring, such as jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane and plunging towards certain death only to rely on a thin piece of silk stopping our plunge to the earth at the last minute and we are not going to stop doing such things.

We are going to go and surf waves of such tremendous size and power that the logic of those not addicted to such a sport says that to do so is to tempt death with the odds not on your side.

Such is the nature of us humans.

When we do these things we know or should know the risks involved and take measures to minimalize them. We do that by understanding the risks not by saying we will kill or remove everything that might be of a life taking threat, and we understand the risks by education on what these risks are.

For those that want to do something about understanding what can and cannot be done to make the sport of surfing safer this is a good read, as well as other publications from fisheries WA.

http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/Documents/occasional_publications/fop108.pdf

Oh and for those that think I don't know about surfing I first started to surf on a board in the 50s when they where about 16 - 18 ft long and had a hull like construction.

Frosty Fruit - Can you please show me some figures that correlate to shark attacks in WA to a drop in millions of lost revenue to the tourism industry here in WA? and the subsequent effects this has had on our local economy? I don't mean a news article with 'predictions' on tourism dooms days. I think the new taxes on backpackers will be more detrimental to tourism in WA (and other sectors of our market like fruit picking) than shark attacks ever will be. But that is an issue for another day.

Here is a graph I pulled from the Tourism WA website. The total number of visitors to within WA over the last few years. There doesn't appear the be a dooms day plummet in the number of visitors to WA coinciding with shark attacks, appears to be quite the opposite. The graph doesn't show the total spend.

The next graph is the 'tourism' most people think of International visitors. 2015 international vistor numbers are up since the spate of shark attacks. Spend is down by 4.7% but the spending rate once here surely isn't attributed to shark attacks? The point is the actual number of people coming to the part of the world has actually increased since these shark attacks.

The point I am making is, it is easy to say the poor tourists will be scared off and our economy will be hurt because of it, but where are the cold hard facts of this? Or is it just an easy argument to make for the killing of white sharks?

Like I said, I'm indifferent to the killing of this particular shark, or a small number moving forward that pose a perceived risk to water users. Just do something meaningful with the carcass not just dump it at sea.

The more I think about it the more I think, this could be used as a positive for tourism. That is one 4.2m shark that we have disposed of. Imagine a display somewhere with a dozen well preserved sharks, that people could come to see and learn about the 'baddest' mofo swimming the oceans. It's Perth, we are never going to have the best and most impressive buildings or be the most interesting culturally. But what we do have is amazing Fauna and Flora, show it off. We can't cage dive here, turn the sharks into a resource or a draw card. Elizabeth Quay (I'm not a hater) aint going to draw tourists into Perth, it is just more water front, every coastal (or river) city in the world has it. Or integrate the two its just a brick walk way, display some big sharks down there, make it interesting, make it a draw card, give something people to talk about. 'I went to Perth those crazy bastards have some man eating sharks on display' - this is the wild wild west!

I went to the states a couple years ago an visited an aquarium in Florida, their draw card that they promoted in the pamphlet which got me there in the end was a 16' white shark that was cast into replica, yeah it was cool. But imagine a dozen of them suspended in some sort of preserving liquid etc.

and I don't mean go kill a heap of them for this reason, but if fisheries are going to do it anyway, put the fish to good use.

maybe have a chat with the dive shops etc

Wouldn't have to go far - leave a couple cars at the Cockburn boat ramp, a few valuables on the seat and use it as a bird feeder for dickheads. Will have scumbags for days.

You can guarantee Emperor Colin's shark cull was purely tourism dollar related and not safety concerns. This is the same guy that banned MMA in a cage but still allows it in a ring...

There's farken child rapists and pedophiles targeting kids in Perth and ice / meth addicts entering your houses and a large section of the population of this state are losing their minds over one shark when the Eastern States have been culling for years. We eat fish and chips which at some places is still shark. The Governments damned if it does and damned if it doesn't.
I catch shark and keep some for a feed and will continue to do so and sure, its not a white shark but its still a shark.

Would take all of 5 minutes to collect all the samples they need, stomach contents and about 30cm of spine. The jaws complete with broken teeth would be a money spinner, separate teeth of one that size would go for $50-$60 each and if none broken and jaws complete in top condition think $15K.

They shave the spine into thin slices , put it under a microscope and count the growth rings, same as working out the age of a tree. That is why if you catch a tagged shark, don't release it, cut off a section of spine, freeze it and notify shark research at Fisheries, they will arrange collection. When they tag it they inject it with a dye that stains the one growth ring of that year and stands out under microscopic inspection

I'd hate to see the Great White become extinct because of "payback". Could of been a crook shark, who knows? I've yet to see one and have surfed and dived many places around the world where they are supposed to be thick.

The only way to reduce the number of attacks would be to research effective means of deterrent for active ocean users and that will only work if people will use such a device.

White Pointers are crowd controllers, how many people are shit scared to dip their toe in the water let alone go surfing/diving/swimming?

I reckon that the majority of those wanting them all dead don't actually enter the water at all....shit scared

 We got it good dont we? Id hate to be in south africa they are like flies there aren't they? I say just send a license to japan and say we want to do some "research" on this species of shark can you catch some for "research" purposes. Give em a quota of 100 a year through their non breeding season.

But really i dont listen to the kill or  no kill argument anymore, bigger things to worry about. I just dont use bait or burley of the yak anymore, if i bleed my catch i get out of the area soon after and i use a shark sheild. Its not through fear im just adapting to the dangers same if a shark is sighted in the area simple dont go surfing there drive an extra 15mins and surf somwhere else.

But i hope the bloke recovers and lives the life he planned with his mrs and his child grows up to be a pro surfer!

 Agree with rig and hezzy. Far more important thing to worry about. However Hope the poor guys recover.

As to Jackfrost comment on failing tourism . We might see the reverse mate. The rich chinese might think they get bigger shark fin here and start flocking to Australia! Be better for tourism i say.

Once they get here they will find that its protected and not on the menu !

Well done fisheries for actually catching one! Hopefully the beast ends up on researchers tables.

My thoughts - the sharks are being conditoned to associate wetsuit clad humans with food through shark cage diving.  

Throw some humans in a cage and throw a heap of burley around it and then tease the sharks into a frenzy with tuna carcasses pulling them towards the cages and away from the sharks at the last moment.

a month or so later the shark comes across a wetsuit clad human in another area without the cage.  What do you think the result will be??

Would this be allowed if it were any other animal.

As for the research angle - Fox is considered the shark expert - No request to look at the shark markings to see if it can be identified etc.

Guess finding out it is one of the sharks that is a regular at the Neptune Is (not exactly unlikely) would not be good for business.

 I mean how many do we need.we all know how many there are out there and it will effect fishing tourism in this state . imagine if it continues as is. All there will left is sharks