An environmental lobby group says gillnets are killing endangered species in numbers "far greater" than what is reported, calling for a ban on the fishing practice in Great Barrier Reef waters.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) has released dozens of images, taken over 12 years, showing dead dugongs, narrow sawfish and green turtles washed up on a small stretch of Great Barrier Reef beach at Wunjunga – a tiny community in the Burdekin Shire, south of Townsville – after reportedly becoming caught in gillnets.
