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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

Shark nets go back in water at NSW beaches

Protesters in Byron Bay, Manly and the Gold Coast are calling for shark nets to be removed. (Jason O'BRIEN/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Shark nets are back in the water in NSW, a day after a surfer was mauled north of Sydney, but conservationists say they are wildlife killing machines that don't protect humans.

Every year, on September 1, about 50 shark nets are reinstalled at beaches up and down the NSW coast and stay there until the end of April.

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