Exclusive: Minns government forced to release photos as it pushes ahead with the same shark meshing program for coming season
without finishing a revised management plan for the nets and that the document is still being amended.
Conservationist Andre Borell expected the old management plan set a “very low bar” for the DPI and had been “heavily criticised” by the government’s expert advisory panels on threatened species and fisheries.The photographs of the dolphins and seals killed by the nets were obtained under the state’s Gipa laws by Borrel’s Envoy foundation and shared with Guardian Australia.
“We’ve been working in this space for quite some time now, but every time we get images like this … it still makes your heart drop,” Borell said.The animals photographed were among the 204 marine creatures caught in the shark nets between September 2022 and April 2023 that were non-target species. Of theMore than half of all animals caught died as a result of the entanglement, according to data published by the government.
Borell is calling for the joint management agreement that governs NSW’s shark meshing program to be torn up, claiming it is outdated yet gives the government the power to lawfully kill threatened species with the nets. “We were promised the old 2017 [agreement] would not be rolled over at the five year review, and that a new one would be developed, a process that would allow for public consultation,” he said.
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