‘We can put men on the moon’: Captain calls for re-think on shark nets

There are fresh calls for shark nets to be removed from the coastline after two whales were caught yesterday.
Rescue crews attended to two humpback whales caught in nets just hours apart at Kirra Beach on the Gold Coast and Marcoola Beach on the Sunshine Coast.
It brings the total number of whales trapped in nets in Queensland over the last decade to 57, 55 of which have been released alive.
But Brisbane Whale Watching captain Kerry Lopez told Spencer Howson the cost to marine life is too great.
“So many turtles,” she said. “It’s not just sharks … being caught and killed in those drums and nets.
“[And] at the end of the day, sharks can get around them.”
Just two days ago, the state government revealed 850 sharks have been caught in the nets in the past financial year, up from 655 the previous year and 496 the year before that.
“If there was an acoustic pinging device that could alert the whales and the dolphins that these nets were there, then at least, the government should put some money into doing that,” Ms Lopez continued.
“We can put men on the moon, I’m sure we can come up with other devices that don’t kill these marine animals.”
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