Queensland shark

The spinner shark, Carcharhinus brevipinna, is a species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae, named for the spinning leaps it makes as a part of its feeding strategy.

Queensland Shark Control Program Manager Tony Ham said shark control equipment was in place off 85 Queensland beaches. “The program is designed to capture large and dangerous shark species in a particular area,” Mr Ham said. More

Queensland shark control manager Baden Cameron says it is the same species that has been responsible for two fatal attacks in Gold Coast canals and last year's fatal attack on North Stradbroke Island. More

impact of the Queensland shark control programme on non-target species: whale, dugong, turtle, and dolphin. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. (Accepted subject to revision). Hands, C.G. 1970. The Development and Protection of Durban's Beaches. More

Queensland Shark Meshing Program: Analysis of the results from Townsville, North Queensland. ln:J.Pepperell,J. West and P. Woon, Shark Conservation. Zoological Parks Board of NSW, Australia. More

Queensland shark control program manager Tony Ham said shark control equipment was in place off 85 Queensland beaches. More

Queensland shark control program manager Tony Ham said it took two-and-a-half hours to free the six-metre juvenile whale while a female adult humpback, probably its mother, waited anxiously nearby. "It was made a little bit difficult by the weather," Mr Ham said. More

Queensland Shark Control Program manager Tony Ham said it was most likely a tiger shark. Mr Han reports they catch quite a number of tiger sharks off Bundaberg each year. More

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