Thank you all so much for your support. Keep talking about this. Keep sharing this. Keep the pressure on Minister Tinley and Fisheries to NOT proceed with this proposal!

We note the Fisheries WA statement on this issue that has been issued since this petition started, and respectfully call BS on multiple fronts.

First of all, their aversion to using the word "cull" is a pure PR deflection. If recreational fishers have asked them to reduce the shark population, and they legislatively allow commercial fishers to do it, it's a cull. Period. The dictionary doesn't leave any wiggle room on this... selectively slaughtering a species in order to reduce its population is called culling.

Secondly, their attempt to 'chunk down' the proposed slaughter to try and minimise it (PR wise), is transparent and misleading. Allowing a "small" take of sharks on each commercial fishing trip (we've heard the number 20 thrown around, but have not validated this), multiply it by the entire regions commercial fishing fleet, multiply it by the average number of fishing trips per vessel per year, it becomes a gigantic take of an apex predator over time.

We are currently running the exact numbers but it is INSANE how many sharks will be allowed to be taken (killed) from the region. We will share this info soon. It is in effect, once spread across the regions commercial fishing fleet, a high enough "limit" to decimate the regions shark population, and with it, the ecosystem.

Thank you again for your support of our oceans, and stay tuned for more! If you are in Perth, Shark Ark Project are running a protest on March 4 and we encourage you to attend. Let's show our strength in numbers, and meet some likeminded ocean lovers.