New measures have been announced to address public safety and help mitigate the risk sharks pose to water users.
The new measures include setting baited drum lines to catch large sharks along heavily used beaches in the metropolitan area and the South-West. The drum lines will be deployed 24 hours a day initially from January 2014 through until April 2014.
The new initiatives come on top of a raft of measures
the State Government already has in place to protect beachgoers, like
increased aerial surveillance, beach patrols, shark tagging and a trial of a shark enclosure in the South-West.
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