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Wednesday 18 February 2015

Mola mola mania

SHARK!...or not.
From Wikipedia Commons
The past 12 months has been a terrible period for shark bites in Australia; five fatal incidents including the recent tragic death of a Japanese national at Ballina, northern NSW. When several bites occur within a relatively short time period, the inevitable response by the media and general public is to ask whether sharks are becoming more abundant, and/or encroaching on popular swimming or surfing beaches more often than they have in recent decades.