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Pressure amounts for replacement of shark nets with drumlines in Queensland

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A Griffith University marine biologist has urged the government to act on a Department of Fisheries scientific group’s proposal to trial the replacement of nets. More than 170 marine animals - excluding numbers from targeted sharks dangerous to swimmers – were killed in nets off Queensland just in the last year.


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A Griffith University marine biologist has urged the government to act on a Department of Fisheries scientific group’s proposal to trial the replacement of nets. More than 170 marine animals - excluding numbers from targeted sharks dangerous to swimmers – were killed in nets off Queensland just in the last year.



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