The policy is crazy on so many accounts. Environmental factors aside, you now have a 2.6 metre shark released off Cottesloe. Left to its own devices it would now possibly be cruising off a remote beach maybe south of Bunbury. But now it's pissed off, disorientated, low on oxygen, swimming in circles and folks have cancelled a weekend at the beach just because they know it's there. Not that a drowsy 2.6 metres shark would have much of a bite.. would it?
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-01/shark-protests-wa-catch-and-kill-perth/5232480"After the first capture, Surf Lifesaving WA used Twitter to warn swimmers at Cottesloe to exercise caution, as a 2.6 metre shark had been released one kilometre from shore.
This morning there were reports an undersized shark had been found dead on a shark drum line off Perth's Leighton Beach."
What sort of caution? You're either in the water or you're not.