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.

The Fish section of the OzAnimals site is being updated  - there are now over 300 species.  The picture below shows a small selection of the fish species on the site, and a complete list of all the fish species on the site is included in the table at the end of the post.

The descriptions (fact sheets) will be added progressively over next few weeks.

A few weeks ago I was at Underwater World at the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. I wanted some fish photographs for the OzWildlife web site. Most of the shots I took were with the Pentax K100D and 18-55mm kit lens.

Shooting fish in the well lit reef fish tanks went ok - the main thing to watch is that you shoot at an angle to the glass/perspex when using flash otherwise you get horrible flash reflections.