Thursday, 5 April 2012

Great white filmed circling 300 metres off Kalbarri

Great white filmed circling fishing boats off Kalbarri

The shark has reportedly been spotted circling crayfish boats from the town 600km north of Perth.
Wayne Dewar, from Kalbarri Volunteer Marine Rescue managed to record footage of the great white last Friday about 300m off shore.

Nine News played the footage to WA shark expert Hugh Edwards who confirmed it was almost certainly a great white.

"It's doing all the things that great whites do, completely without fear alongside the boat," he said.

Some Kalbarri community members are calling for the great white to be killed over safety fears for people out on boats and surfers in the popular holiday spot.

But Mr Dewar said his group was not calling for the shark to be killed.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/great-white-filmed-circling-fishing-boats-off-kalbarri/story-e6frg14u-1226319054974

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Great White chases Kayak off Cottesloe WA

Kayak Fisherman vs Great White Shark

This footage, taken while kayak fishing at Woody Head Australia Winter '09, has been taken from one of my fishing reports, edited down with only the footage involving the shark.
* For any questions & comments, go to yakass.net
This version contains some footage not seen in the original. Enjoy :-)

Great White Shark Jumping

National school triathlon cancels ocean swim after death shark spotted

National school triathlon cancels ocean swim

Updated April 03, 2012 08:57:39

Photo: The beach was closed yesterday after a shark was spotted swimming close to the jetty. (ABC News: Stephanie Dalzell)

Map: Busselton 6280

Organisers of a national school triathlon in Busselton say they have been forced to re-locate the ocean swim following a fatal shark attack and shark sighting.

Peter Kurmann, 33, was taken by a great white shark off Stratham beach on Saturday.
And, a shark was spotted close to Busselton jetty yesterday forcing the closure of some beaches.
Almost 800 students were set to swim around the jetty tomorrow.
School Sports WA's Peter Smith says the attack, as well as the shark sighting, made the decision easier.
"Obviously the decision to put the kids in the water would have been a big one and the groups involved, none were prepared to do that," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-03/school-triathlon-cancels-ocean-swim/3929154?section=wa

Surfer eaten by a shark at a beach near Gracetown

Surfer dies after shark attack

Updated August 17, 2010 20:03:00

A 31-year-old surfer has died after being attacked by a shark at a beach near Gracetown, south of Perth, this morning.

Police say the man from Busselton, 50 kilometres north of Gracetown, was surfing south of South Point when he was attacked about 8:15am WSDT.
Local residents have told how they tried to resuscitate the man who had suffered horrific injuries.
Eddie Kilgallon was among a group of local residents who went to the man's aid and tried to revive him.
"We just kept on encouraging him," he said.
"We noticed that he had a wedding ring on, constantly reminding him of the people that do love him and we tried to give him their love."
Mr Kilgallon says the man's injuries were horrific.
"[The] back half of his leg was totally chomped. It looked like one bite. It looked like a big shark bite," he said.
It is understood the man was a father and worked in Western Australia's Goldfields.
Rob Alder says he was watching the surfer from his house and had been deciding whether to go for a surf himself when he saw the man lose his board and not come back up again.
Mr Alder says he rushed down to the beach with his friends and alerted a rescue crew.
He says they found the surfer washed up on rocks near South Point, lying unconscious with a huge gash to his leg.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-08-17/surfer-dies-after-shark-attack/947604

How a Great White Pointer ate a man in waist deep water Cottesloe WA

The Science of Shark Attacks

- 6 Jan 2001

By Stuart Carter

On the other side of the world on the west coast of Australia, a group of swimmers confrontation with a Great White revealed how selective a shark can be when choosing its prey. In Perth there is a local swimming group called the Pod. One of their members was businessman Ken Crew. The morning of November 6th 2000 started like any other. The 'pod' met on the beach for their usual 6.30am swim. At the end of the swim over a dozen of the members stood chest deep water. Then suddenly someone yelled 'Shark! Get out of the water!' The swimmers fled for their lives. The Great White caught Ken in its massive jaws. The shark had bitten off his right leg, slicing through a major artery. He'd bled to death in seconds. But how and why did the shark single out Ken Crew, in the middle of such a large group of swimmers?

http://www.firstscience.com/home/articles/nature/the-science-of-shark-attacks-page-2-1_1375.html

Shark tears surfer to pieces at Margs near Busselton WA

Surfer killed in shark attack off Western Australia

By STAFF REPORTER

Last Updated: 12 Jan 2011

Nicholas eventually died on the way to hospital this morning.
Local surfer Eddie Kilgallon, 42, was about 200m away from the attack at South Point in Cowaramup Bay, Western Australia when he heard shouting and a man yelling "Shark! Shark!"
"There were about four of us in the water and we all freaked out," he said.

Savage ... Senior Constable Ross Bartley of Margaret River Police with the damaged surfboard

Mogens Johansen

"We started paddling for shore and a pod of seals came up in the middle of us.
"I thought it was a shark at first and thought 'This is it, I'm gone too'."
Nicholas, who is a miner from Busselton, south of Perth, was dragged out of the ocean onto the beach.
Eddie added: "We wrapped a jumper around his legs and used a leg rope as a tourniquet.
"I was holding what was left of his leg together. The bottom half of his thigh was exposed and ripped open. Half of his calf muscle was also torn to shreds.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3099481/Surfer-killed-in-shark-attack.html

Champion surfer eaten in brutal shark attack SW Australia

Champion surfer killed in brutal shark attack

A top surfer has been killed after a quick and brutal shark attack on the French-owned island of Reunion.

White Pointer eats swimmer at Cottesloe beach WA

Shark kills bather yards from family beach

By Barbie Dutter in Sydney

12:00AM GMT 07 Nov 2000

A SWIMMER was killed yesterday in an attack by a 19ft great white shark as more than 100 people looked on from one of Western Australia's most popular family beaches.


Attacked: Kenneth Crew had his leg bitten off in waist-deep water

Kenneth Crew, 49, a father of three, was having his customary early morning dip with a group of friends off Cottesloe Beach, near Perth, when the shark struck in waist-deep water a few yards from the shore. Witnesses to Australia's third fatal shark attack within six weeks described how a huge fin was spotted circling Mr Crew for several minutes while he flailed his arms.

Mr Crew, a businessman, whose leg was bitten off, was brought ashore and died soon afterwards in the arms of a Catholic priest, his friend Fr Brian Morrison. A second man was also attacked after swimming out and punching the shark's body in an effort to save Mr Crew. Dirk Avery, 52, received deep cuts to his right leg and foot.

Fr Morrison said: "I was in the cafe, and heard the shout, 'Shark attack'. I looked up and saw a very large fin and a man with flailing arms. I raced to the beach and noticed a huge number of people gathered. Some went out into the water - two in particular tried to push the shark away - while others took hold of Ken and brought him to shore.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/1373613/Shark-kills-bather-yards-from-family-beach.html

Eaten Alive - Great White Shark Australia

Shark horror: stalked by great white shark - video

Shark horror: stalked by great white shark

Shark horror: snorkeller dead, kayakers menaced Rebecca Richardson and Claire Kelly December 28, 2008 THIS is the horrifying moment when a giant shark menaced kayakers off Sydney yesterday. White pointers caused terror on opposite sides of Australia yesterday, with snorkeller Brian Guest killed as he swam with his son at a beach near Perth.

Tourist torn apart in deadly shark attack off crowded South West Australian beach

Tourist torn apart in deadly shark attack off crowded Australian beach

By Richard Shears
UPDATED: 15:54 GMT, 4 September 2011

A young surfer has been killed in a horrifying shark attack near a crowded beach in Western Australia.
Witnesses said the shark - believed to be a feared great white - came up beneath him, grabbed the man, aged in his early 20s, and pulled him below the surface.
The victim, who has yet to be named, was riding on a bodyboard - a cut-down version of a surfboard - when the attack occurred near Cape Naturaliste in the south west of Western Australia.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033553/Shark-kills-bodyboarder-crowded-Australian-beach.html#ixzz1qxWHxpm4

Man eater takes Cottelsloe beach swimmers in Western Australia

6/11/2000
Fatal shark attack shocks Cottesloe community

KERRY O'BRIEN: That Melbourne Cup preview later in the program.

Shark attacks have become part of the Australian mythology.

White Pointers in particular are usually associated with remote beaches in the cold waters of the Southern Ocean.

But today that myth was well and truly shattered with a shocking attack on two men at Perth's Cottesloe beach.

The men were taking their usual early morning dip, planning their routine after-swim coffee, when the 4 metre shark attacked.

One man is dead, the other in hospital with injuries to his legs and feet, and the close-knit community of Cottesloe is in shock.

Jenelle Provost reports.

JOHN BAILEY, WITNESS: The shark was literally circling in tight symmetrical circles around its victim.

He was turning like this, with his hands out, trying to stop the shark.

Then he went limp.

As soon as he went limp, the shark changed its orbit and headed off towards the shore.

KIM GAMBLE, CAFE OWNER: Someone shouted, "Shark attack!"

And I just sort of thought, "Someone's joking."

I turned around and looked out to the water and then there's this huge amount of blood in the water and then saw the shark just sort of rolling with its tail and fin and pushing this person towards the north and then it sort of seemed to let go.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s208937.htm

Man disappears from Cottesloe beach taken by man eater

Search mission turns to recovery amid fears swimmer taken by great white shark

Jenna Clarke

October 10, 2011

The family of missing 64-year-old swimmer Bryn Martin, who is feared to have been taken by a shark, has this morning made a brief statement at Cottesloe Beach.
Mr Martin's eldest son Alistair described his father a "lovely, family man" who loved his morning swims.
"Yesterday we received news that any family would dread and hopefully today will bring the closure that we need," he said.

Tourist children nearly eaten by Shark in Western Australia

Shark victim told others 'get the hell out'

PHOEBE WEARNE and NICK SAS, The West Australian January 20, 2012, 5:27 am

Simon Santi / The West Australian © Shark victim told others 'get the hell out'

A tour guide has told how he yelled at two young children to get out of the water as he was attacked by a 3m tiger shark at Coral Bay yesterday.
Dave Pickering, 26, who works for Coral Bay Eco Tours, last night told of his "scary" ordeal in which he punched the shark in self-defence.
He was hosting a group of four tourists at the popular snorkelling spot known as The Lagoon, 500m offshore, when the shark attacked about 11am.
At Jandakot Airport last night, Mr Pickering said his arm had been pouring blood everywhere following the attack and he believed the shark had bitten through to the bone.
"I was swimming with my arms down by my side and I turned around to make sure everyone was still alive in the water and turned around and, boom, there he was," Mr Pickering said.

Monday, 2 April 2012

Man bitten by shark in Coral Bay in Wetsern Australia

Man bitten by shark in Coral Bay Western Australia

Aja Styles

January 19, 2012

A 26-year-old man has been bitten by a three-metre tiger shark in Western Australia's north-west.
Sergeant Graham Clifford said the man had been snorkelling at The Lagoon, north of Coral Bay, about 2pm when he was bitten to the right forearm.
He said the man suffered tendon damage but his injury was not considered life-threatening.

Read more: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/man-bitten-by-shark-in-coral-bay-20120119-1q83l.html#ixzz1qxOOhSvq

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news

Push for ocean pools to keep swimmers safe from shark attack in WA

Push for ocean pools to keep swimmers safe from shark attack in Western Australia

Push for ocean pools to keep swimmers safe

DANIEL EMERSON, The West Australian Updated October 26, 2011, 2:30 am

The Barnett Government should spend $15 million on three ocean pools - one at Cottesloe which is in the concept phase - to give people a shark-free saltwater swimming option, the Opposition says.
Shadow fisheries minister Jon Ford said three fatal shark attacks in WA in seven weeks prompted Labor to come up with a proposal of "practical engineering solutions" to safeguard swimmers.
It proposed two ocean pools in Perth at Cottesloe and a northern beach and one in regional WA, probably Middleton Beach, Albany. It was also exploring the feasibility of "beach enclosures" made from the metal mesh used in aquaculture.
The mesh, typically 12cm rings interconnected like chain mail suspended from a cable attached to buoys, would be a barrier rather than a net catching sea life, Mr Ford said.
He said 26 pools built into the rocky NSW coast were immensely popular and if pilot pools in WA were popular, more should be built.
"The only guarantee (against sharks) is if you stop the interaction between the marine environment and people," he said.
Opposition Leader Eric Ripper said the March 2013 State poll was too far away to make the proposal an ALP election promise.
But he said Labor would build the pools today if it could and would build them if they won the next election if current economic conditions prevailed.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/10872349/push-for-ocean-pools-to-keep-swimmers-safe/

Broad rules for fishigng in Western Australia

Broad rules for fishing in Western Australia

March 31 2012

*upper bag limits
*lower bag limits
*boat limits
*tag limits
*licences
*trip limits
*possession limits
*upper size limits
*lower size limits
*spawn closures
*regional limits
*2 months closed demersal fishing
*skipper licence
*massive no-fishing areas

The dearest fishing licence in the country which you pay a year whether you fish a day or a year

Is it really worth the visit? Its an expensive place to see.

Global government control of your children

Phyllis Schlafly on the Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST)

The US explains what is happening with taking global control of your children in the future. Where your children will pay a global tax as well. Where does it end?

World Goverment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beb1YPSUX-c&feature=player_embedded

North Western Australia no fishing zones

Barrow Island Marine Park
Webpage
Zones or map	See diagrams and maps in the Management plan
Management Plan

Barrow Island Marine Management Areas
Webpage
Zones or map	See diagrams and maps in the Management plan
Management Plan

Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan

Jurien Bay Marine Park
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan
Audit report 2008

Marmion Marine Park
Webpage
Zones or map Zones or map
Management Plan Management Plan

Montebello Islands Marine Park
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan

Muiron Islands Marine Management Areas
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan

Ningaloo Marine Park, WA State waters
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan
See also Fishing and boating restrictions in Naval Waters around the Navy Jetty at Point Murat, Exmouth

Ningaloo Marine Park, Commonwealth waters
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan (expired on 2 July 2009) After 2 July 2009, interim management arrangements will apply until a new management plan is in place.

Rowley Shoals Marine Park
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan

Shark Bay Marine Park
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan

Shoalwater Islands Marine Park
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan

Swan Estuary Marine Park
Webpage
Zones or map/
Management Plan

Walpole and Nornalup Inlets Marine Park
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan

More no fishing zones in Western Australia

Cottesloe Fish Habitat Protection Area
Webpage	Page removed from Dept of Fisheries website.
Zones or map
Management Plan

Cowaramup Reef Protected Area
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan	Nothing found on Dept of Fisheries website.

Kalbarri Blue Holes Fish Habitat Protection Area
Webpage
Zones or map	See diagrams and maps in the Management plan
Management Plan

Lancelin Island Lagoon Fish Habitat Protection Area
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan

Miaboolya Beach Fish Habitat Protection Area
Webpage
Zones or map	See diagrams and maps in the Management plan
Management Plan

Point Quobba Fish Habitat Protection Area
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan

Point Samson Reef - A special place requiring protection. These rules comprise a set of prohibitions that have been made under Section 43 of the Fish Resources Management Act 1994.
Webpage
Zones or map
Management Plan	Order under FRMA Section 43 - see webpage. ref:http://www.aaawa.iinet.net.au/MarineParks.htm#Rottnest 30 March 2010

Rottnest no fishing zones

30-March-2010

Overall map of Rottnest
Kingston Reef sanctuary zone
Parker Point sanctuary zone
Green Island sanctuary zone
West End demersal zone
Armstrong sanctuary zone

Reference: http://www.aaawa.iinet.net.au/MarineParks.htm#Rottnest

Southwest Western Australia no-fishing zones closures

Capes marine park announced in Yallingup

- ROB BENNETT

28 Mar, 2012 11:53 AM

Busselton Mail

MOST of the Busselton Jetty has been excluded from the new marine park announced in Yallingup on Saturday.The Premier Colin Barnett and Environment Minister Bill Marmion announced details of Ngari Capes Marine Park, which will cover about 124,000ha, from Geographe Bay to Augusta.
Mr Marmion said the only section of the jetty, at the tip, where the shire already had a fishing exclusion zone, would be included in the new marine park.
He said important marine habitats and some of the South-West’s top surfing locations would be preserved and protected under the new marine park to be created by the State Government.
The marine park will include the waters between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin.
It will balance both recreational pursuits and protect important marine life by classifying areas into different zones.
“The creation of this marine park will help conserve one of Western Australia’s most remarkable marine areas,” Mr Barnett said.
“It is also one of the State’s most popular tourism destinations – the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park adjoining the marine park receives more than two million visits annually, and is the most popular national park in WA.
“As I have previously said, arguably the most important benefit of this period of economic growth is to ensure the protection of the State’s unique environment for future generations.

Full story: http://www.busseltonmail.com.au/news/local/news/general/capes-marine-park-announced-in-yallingup/2504133.aspx

WA beach closed after fatal shark attack

Busselton

ABC News

Updated April 01, 2012 01:19:23

A popular Western Australian beach remains closed after 33-year-old Peter Kurmann was attacked and killed by a shark on Saturday morning.

Police say Mr Kurmann, from the town of Vasse, near Busselton, had anchored his boat about 1.7 kilometres off Stratham Beach and was diving for crayfish with his brother when he was attacked just after 9:00am (AWST).
The shark is believed to be a four-metre great white, and a patrol plane has spotted a similar sized shark south of the attack site, about 600 metres offshore.
Tony Cappelluti from the Department of Fisheries says a boat has gone to the area.
"We will attempt to take it. Whether we destroy it is an issue that'll be decided at the time by the relevant people able to give that order," he said.
Mr Kurmann's body was brought to shore two hours after the attack, along with the boat he and his brother had been using.
His brother, Gian, says his family has lost a son, a brother, a husband and a wonderful father.
It is the fourth fatal shark in Western Australia in seven months.
Bodyboarder Kyle Burden, 21, was killed in Bunker Bay in September, while 64-year-old Bryn Martin disappeared off Perth's Cottesloe Beach in October. It is presumed he was taken by a shark.
Less than two weeks after that, 32-year-old George Wainwright was killed by a shark off Rottnest Island.
The deaths prompted the State Government to spend millions of dollars on initiatives aimed at preventing further attacks.
Authorities say there is no evidence shark numbers are increasing.
Tina Thorne from the Government's Shark Response Unit says more research is needed.
"What we'd like to do is put some solid science behind some of those theories and prove them or disprove them," she said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-31/fatal-shark-attack/3924828

White Pointer attacks increase as 20 years of total protection loses control

Saturday, 31 March 2012: Peter Kurmann, 33, dies while diving for lobster off Busselton

Saturday, 22 October 2011: American George Thomas Wainwright, 32, died after an attack while scuba diving off Rottnest Island

Monday, 10 October 2011: Bryn Martin was likely taken by great white shark after he was last seen about 350m from the shore as he headed out to sea on his daily swim in front of the Indiana tea house.

Sunday, 4 September 2011: Kyle James Burden is killed while bodyboarding with friends at Bunker Bay, near Dunsborough.

Tuesday, 17 August 2010: Nick Edwards died after a shark attacked him while he was surfing near Gracetown.

Saturday, 27 December 2008: Fisherman Brian Guest is taken by a great white while snorkelling at Port Kennedy.

Saturday, 19 March 2005: Geoffrey Brazier is attacked by a 6m shark, believed to be a great white, as he snorkelled near the Abrolhos Islands, off Geraldton.

Saturday, 10 July 2004: Brad Smith attacked by a great white as he surfed near Gracetown.

Monday 6 November 2000: Swimmer Ken Crew is killed by a great white off Cottesloe.

Monday 20 January 1997: Windsurfer Werner Schonhofer is likely killed by a tiger shark in Geraldton.

Monday 11 September 1995: Abalone diver David Weir killed near Hopetoun in the South-West.

Sunday 21 November, 1993: Pearl diver Richard Bisley killed by a tiger shark off Roebuck Bay, Broome.

The Globalist Marine No Fishing Agenda

The Globalist Marine Agenda

By Anthony Coralluzzo
	Submitted: Sat, 11/09/2010 - 2:55pm Authored: Sat, 11/09/2010 - 2:55pm

There is a concerted effort by the United Nations and our own federal government, to cut off recreational and commercial fisherman from sea fisheries around Australia. The mechanism for excluding fisherman, as well as other critical commercial enterprises (gas, oil and other natural resources), is the legislative creation of marine parks, justified under a cloak of green rhetoric.

Marine Parks are essentially the marine equivalent of terrestrial national parks, meaning areas where government legislation prohibits various types of human activity and sometimes all human activity. They are a manifestation of environmentalist ideology, which proclaims that humans must be incrementally cut-off from natural resources.

Serious efforts to thrust the marine-specific environmentalist agenda upon nation states can be traced back to the League of Nations Conference for the Codification of International Law which took place from the 13^th of March to the 12^th of April in 1930. At that conference, international maritime law was on the agenda and although there was a failure to reach agreement, one of the items on the agenda was ‘conservation of living resources’, despite the lack of scientific evidence suggesting any shortage. [1]