If I saw a large great white on a beach I lived on and had the chance to kill the bloody thing I think I would have done the same and be thinking I am doing my local community a bloody service. Fining this man is just strange. However I have never really lived by the sea as I grew up inland. What do you coastal dudes think of this ruling?
Man in Australia fined £10,000 for ramming shark with boat
Man in Australia fined after killing shark by ramming it with his boat and beating it with a pole
A man who killed a great white shark in Australia by repeatedly ramming it with his boat and beating it with a pole has been fined almost A$18,000 (£10,000)
A court in the state of New South Wales found Justin Adam Clark, 40, guilty of harming a threatened species after he apparently injured the shark with the boat’s propeller and then towed it to a boat ramp and killed it.
The master of a boat that helped to tow the shark pleaded guilty to harming a threatened species and was given a six-month good behaviour bond.
Though Western Australia recently approved a controversial cull of large sharks – including great whites - after a series of deadly attacks, the creatures are listed as threatened in Australia and the culled sharks can only be killed by contracted fishermen.
Witnesses said Clark chased the shark in his boat in waters south of Sydney and then led it to shallow water, where he repeatedly hit it with his vessel. He then tied a rope to its tail and towed it with help from a second boat.
“This conviction sends a strong message that harming of our threatened species will not be tolerated,’’ the NSW government said in a statement.
“Everyone needs to know the rules and ignorance is no excuse,’’
The cull of large sharks has generated protests by thousands of people across the country.
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