A 1.8-metre tiger shark found decapitated at the end of a popular tourist jetty in Western Australia has prompted calls to expand a recent shark fishing ban to include the South West region.
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The state government imposed a wire trace shark fishing ban on Perth beaches this month, extending from South Mandurah to just north of Two Rocks in the metropolitan region.
Local diver Aaron Goodhew discovered a damaged tiger shark body at Busselton Jetty over the weekend, only eight metres from a ladder entrance to the ocean, before photographing it in front of one of the jetty’s underwater sculptures.
“I removed it from the water and I took it back to the beach away from where all the kids were,” he went on to say.
“Then I just basically wrapped it up in an old curtain and just got it off the beach and took it away.”
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