Shark apps, nets, culling, tagging, aerial patrols - they'll all be discussed this week as part of the Shark Summit.
In the past two decades, there has been 34 fatalities involving sharks.
However, this number is low compared with the combined number of people who have been uninjured, 87, and injured, 207, due to their encounters with sharks.
There were no recorded deaths in 1996, 1997, 2001, 2007 and 2009.
In 2009, 17 people were injured as a result of shark-related incident while nine people were left uninjured despite their encounter with a shark.
This was also the year where the number shark related encounters amounted to a grand total of 26.
All of the data for the graphs, adapted from Taronga Zoo's Australian Shark Attack File, take into consideration 'unprovoked' and 'provoked' encounters between a human and a shark.
An 'unprovoked' occurrence is where a shark is in its natural habitat and has attempted to bite a human who is not engaged in provocative activities.
A 'provoked' meeting is where a human initiates physical contact with the animal (feeding, fishing, netting etc) or is engaged in commercial aquatic activities like the cleaning of captured fish.
In this week's Insight filmed at Lennox Head on the NSW north coast, we bring together concerned local community members to find out how much do we actually know about sharks and what can be done to prevent more attacks.
