The use of traps is controversial and was widely criticised on Wednesday, including by WA Greens MP Lynn MacLaren, University of Sydney lecturer Christopher Neff and Mr Williams, who said killing individual sharks did not make the ocean safer.
Date: Jun 01, 2016
Category: World
Source: Google
Australia deploys drones to track sharks and prevent attacks
summit heard that netting and culling of sharks would be out of step with public opinion. Christopher Neff, a lecturer in public policy at the University of Sydney, told ABC at the time that research showed more than 80% of people in the Ballina and Byron coastal areas were opposed to killing sharks.
Some researchers contend that the French initiative will not work as planned. Christopher Neff, a shark attack researcher at the University of Sydney, said that statistics and an ineffective decade-long cull in Hawaii prove that "shark hunts just don't work to reduce the number of attacks."
Christopher Neff, a University of Sydney researcher completing a PhD in the politics of shark attacks, said such hunts were only about addressing public perception of risk, and did not reduce actual levels of risk.