January 28, 2014 — Animal rights activists in west Australia are fishing for trouble in shark-infested waters by tampering with bait traps used for a government-mandated culling.
The Guardian reported the protesters had removed bait from drum lines after the first shark — a female tiger shark — was caught, shot four times and discarded at sea.
The Western Australia government ordered the culling of great white, bull and tiger sharks more than 10 feet long following seven fatal shark attacks in the area in three years
Government spokesman Simon Beaumont said the first shark was killed by a government-contracted commercial fisherman on Sunday morning off Castle Rock near the town of Dunsborough, 155 miles south of Perth.
"I was satisfied that I managed to get the rounds in the right place and we dispatched it as quickly as we possibly could," said the fisherman, who asked not to be named.
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