The figures below are from a report in Brisbane’s Sunday Mail (January 17, 2009) …

• 577 great white sharks caught off New South Wales beaches between 1950 and 2008
• 901 great white sharks caught off  Queensland since 1962.
• Over 45,000 sharks caught in Queensland nets since they were introduced, according to the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries.
• 578 sharks were netted off Queensland beaches, in 2008. Almost half of them over 2m long.