London, UK - Pressure is mounting on the New South Wales Government to re-instate protections for the endangered grey nurse shark.
A number of restrictions to recreational fishing at known grey nurse aggregation sites were suspended when the Coalition came to power last year.
A review has confirmed that the shark population is depleted and there is a need for greater protection from recreational fishers at Green Island and Fish Rock.
Senior lecturer in fisheries and marine biology at South Cross University Dr Daniel Bucher says the Government cannot afford to sit on the review.
"I find it frustrating that we know what the threatening processes are," he says.
"They're relatively easy to stop.
"At least in those areas where we know that there are aggregations of grey nurse shark and we know there's lots of public support for it now.
"So it's frustrating that a relatively simple step to re-instate the protective levels is not going ahead as quickly as possible.
"The longer it delays, the more sharks are likely to be affected."
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