A scuba diver has claimed trophy searching fishers are going to disturbing lengths to catch sharks.
Hunters are then catching the marine predators off seashores the place Perth residents swim, she claimed.
”Majority of the time they do not come that close to the shore,” she advised host Gary Adshead.
“They’re actually using kayaks to drop them out and using things to weigh them down like concrete.
“People aren’t conscious of what is going on on till they see these sharks being pulled in and these individuals are then put within the media as heroes however actually they do not give a rattling concerning the lives of different beachgoers – it is for his or her ego and their Instagram.”
Hills has successfully advocated bans on recreational shark fishing and hunting.
She said she was recently sent a photo of a shark carcass with her named carved into it.
The diver stated she upset fishermen after a marketing campaign to stop helium balloons from getting used for shark fishing.
“You can think about how shocked I used to be once I obtained that,” she said.
“I by no means thought that anybody would truly go that low.”
