COOGEE BEACH.
SHARK FISHERS "WARNED OFF."
It often happens that good deeds are only not readily regonised, but are sometimes spoken of in a disparaging manner. There are habitues of the beaches thinking long and bitter thoughts of this character, writes a Sydney correspondent. They are public benefactors, yet they have been "warned off." Some of the beaches are occasionally shark-infested. Several tragedies have furnished dark" records of this fact. A little corps of fishermen has operated against the sharks with the object of so reducing their number as to make surfing safer. Two shark fishers during the last two days landed half-a-dozen maneaters, some of very large size, and just at the height of their elation, owing to this rendering of public service, they were ordered off the beach by a representative of Randwick Council. Some surfers were almost as much surprised as the fishermen, but the official explanation is that shark fishing actually attracts sharks, owing to the luscious character of the bait employed. A fierce controversy is now arising, and more will be learned of the habits and tasts of sharks.
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Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3089, 14 December 1929, Page 3
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184COOGEE BEACH. Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3089, 14 December 1929, Page 3
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