Catch-and-kill policy will run from November to April each year until 2017 if Barnett government receives approval from Coalition
Brendan Foster
theguardian.com, Tuesday 8 April 2014 09.55 BST
The WA government wants to extend its controversial shark cull for another three years.
The catch-and-kill policy, which allows hunters to kill sharks longer than three-metres long off the coast off WA, started on 26 January.
A spokesman for the federal environment minister, Greg Hunt, told WAtoday that the Barnett government had applied to continue to drop drum lines off the WA coast. The WA government submitted a 149-page submission to Hunt's office.
If given approval by the federal government, the cull would be from November to April each year until 2017.
The WA government’s current agreement with the Abbott government lasts three more weeks.
It has to get approval from the federal environment minister to continue the drumline policy, as great whites are a protected species.
Under the new proposal, 72 baited lines would be placed off Perth and south-west beaches.
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