Need for reliable data on sharks

By Melinda Ham
Updated September 15 2015 - 12:18am, first published 12:00am
A juvenile white shark swims in the Port Stephens region. Photo: William Gladstone
A juvenile white shark swims in the Port Stephens region. Photo: William Gladstone

It is a fact – there have been 25 shark attacks in the past eight months in Australia, compared with 23 in all of 2014. However, scientists dispute this nominal increase is cause for a shark cull in northern NSW.

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