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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Joe Hinchliffe

‘They’re smart now’: Australian fishers are on tenterhooks over shark encounters. Should swimmers be worried?

A bull shark at Shark Bay Sea World Gold Coast
Australia typically averages the second-highest number of reported shark bites and fatalities a year, behind the United States. Photograph: Mike Greenslade/Australia/Alamy

Moreton Bay charter boat deckhand Bryce Daly is starting to feel unsafe swimming the waters he’s grown up fishing.

“You’ve always got a shark in the back of your mind,” the 32-year-old Jimboomba man says.

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