Minister Tara Moriarty confirmed on 30/07/24 that shark nets would return for yet another summer, albeit with a one month shorter meshing season.

NSW DPI shark programs leader Marcel Green said the changes this summer were the most significant made to the netting program in 40 years.

If the biggest progress in a program designed to catch and kill threatened and protected wildlife in over 40 years, is shortening the program by one month,  that speaks volumes. 

For over 10 years, the Threatened Species Scientific Committee (TSSC) and the Fisheries Scientific Committee (FSC) have condemned the program, who advise the NSW government about the shark nets, have consistently advocated for DPI to move away from shark nets. 

DPI bragging about this being the biggest progress in four decades, is a very weird flex indeed…