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July 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Most of Western Australia’s recent shark fatalities involved risk-laden water sports in remote areas, according to the Department of Fisheries.
WA has earned “shark capital of the world” status after a death at the weekend, the fifth in 10 months, prompting the state government to question whether great white populations have recovered since the species was given protected status in 1997.
Fisheries spokesman Tony Capelluti agrees with University of Sydney shark researcher Christopher Neff, who says the ocean is inherently risky – but riskier still when people enter it in remote areas, alone, at dawn or dusk, or when there’s an abundant food source for sharks.
Of the nine people killed by sharks off WA over the past eight years, seven were in remote areas, Mr Capelluti said.
Four were surfers including 24-year-old Ben Linden, who was taken by a five metre great white some 160km north of Perth on Saturday, while two were divers and two were snorkelers.
One of the snorkelers, Brian Guest, 51, was taken by a great white in December 2008 at Port Kennedy in Perth’s south, which is not remote, but he was catching crabs.
The only person out of the nine who was swimming near the shore at a metropolitan beach – 64-year-old Bryn Martin, who disappeared in October last year at Perth’s Cottesloe Beach – may actually have drowned.
“No-one saw that … no-one knows if it was a shark attack,” Mr Capelluti told AAP.
“We often hear all these very emotive debates about `we should net all the beaches off’.
“Well, it wouldn’t have saved the four surfers because they’re surfing in remote locations in most instances.”
The recent spate of attacks off WA was perplexing, he said, given there was usually only one fatal shark attack each year Australia-wide.
He said a call by WA Fisheries Minister Norman Moore to reassess the great white’s protected status was a reasonable one because it was not yet known whether the spate was a result of rebounding shark populations or a greater distribution of humans around the state as its population rose.
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