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The Australian Government Will Spend Up to $1 Million to Kill Sharks

"From January 10, WA Fisheries will deploy baited drum lines along five locations in the Perth metropolitan area and off three beaches in the state's South West where the most recent fatality occurred. Today Mr Barnett and new WA Fisheries Minister Ken Baston confirmed sharks caught by the drum lines that had not already died would be shot by firearm and discarded at sea." - excerpts from article in Herald Sun News.

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