THE ABC reports that commercial fishermen in Western Australia are hesitant to tender for work on the state’s controversial shark cull because of concerns for their safety.
The WA State Government has issued a tender for professional fishers to catch and kill all white, bull and tiger sharks more than three metres long in certain areas along the state’s coast.
There has been strong opposition to the policy, including from one man who vandalised Premier Colin Barnett’s office.
Mr Barnett says commercial fishermen are understandably wary.
“There has been some hesitancy by people who were keen to put in tenders and some of them have pulled back,” he said. “I can understand that because there has been a lot of aggression and threatening behaviour in the community.”
The Premier says such behaviour has damaged the standing of the environmental movement.
His comments come as WA activists band together to form a special unit in a bid to sabotage the catch-and-kill shark policy.
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