A great white shark died days after a Japanese aquarium boasted of its success in exhibiting it in a tank. The creature had refused to eat since it was...
The death of this Great white shark kept in a Japanese aquarium is shocking, just as the deaths of nearly 800 Great white sharks killed within the Queensland Shark Control Program between 1962 and 2014 should also be shocking.
In 2013 the Australian Government released their ‘White Shark Recovery Plan’. This is the plan that we Australians show the world when we are asked what we are doing to aid the recovery of the Great white shark. Within the recovery plan it is stated that one of the key threats to the recovery of this species is accidental deaths in shark meshing programs.
In Queensland there are no accidental deaths of White sharks within our Shark Control Program. Contractors do not accidentally place a firearm against a sharks head and press the trigger. White sharks are a target species and when caught within the gear they are killed.
The treatment and subsequent death of this Great white in Japan is shocking, but we don’t have to look too far to see that in Australia we are contributing to the decline of this protected animal also.
(Thankyou ‘Shark Files Queensland’ for this information)
For more statistics and information go to www.sharkfilesqueensland.org















