Just a few hundred meters from Sydney`s most popular beach, a fisherman caught a giant great white shark with a fishing net.
Fisherman Trapman Bermagui caught the 4.6m shark in the sea off Maroubra Beach in eastern Sydney on Monday.
He wrote on Facebook, "A great white shark up to 4.6 meters long was caught by my shark net!" The shark has a tail of 2 meters long and a pectoral fin of more than 1 metre. Sharks weigh more than a ton. I caught it at one of Sydney`s most popular surfing beaches. "
He posted several photos of sharks, stressing that he had not caught them, but that he had found them.
He wrote that the Shark Network near Sydney is a project run by the state government.
After several shark attacks across the country, Dr Barbara Wueringer of Australia`s shark and rays department warned swimmers to be wary of rising temperatures in the summer.
"from a biologist`s point of view, it`s hard to tell what happened in the sea, but there must be something that brought these animals in," she said in an interview.
"Sharks are really carnivores wandering around, so you can find them anywhere in the ocean, but there must be a reason for these animals to bite in that area."
Dr. Wueringer referred to the Taronga Conservation Society`s Australian Shark attack document, which lists precautions that can be taken to reduce the risk of attacks.
Dr Wueringer said: "I think it is the responsibility of the media to disseminate this information so that people will know more about the guidelines."
John West, the head of the Australian shark attack dossier, cited some of the causes of shark attacks, including hunger, mistaking humans as prey, and the threat of their private spaces.
Sharks like bright colors, blood, urine and sound.
Data collected by the Shark Institute`s Global Shark attack File show that most of the top 13 locations where unprovoked shark attacks occurred between 1990 and 2016 were in New South Wales.
According to the Institute, 295 unprovoked shark attacks occurred between 1990 and 2016, 122 of them in the new state.
Over a 26-year period, the institute documented 42 deadly shark attacks in Australia.
