Ms Sharky likes to talk a big game about how I am lazy and don't report the shark news as well as Sharky did, but hey, who the hell is she to open her big fat mouth? She hasn't reported on anything in weeks...and we've been getting mail too, look:

"um, hello. you last chum slick entry was like, 2 weeks ago. are you dead? sharky? ms. sharky?" --signed sista

See! Ms Sharky is even more lazy than me. There has even been some actual shark attacks that she hasn't even commented on...I can't wait until they find Sharky himself or at least his crab-eaten corpse. Now for some news This is from The Australian:

Call to remove shark nets April 28, 2006 THE Gold Coast's controversial shark nets should be removed in winter to stop migrating whales becoming entangled or dying, an academic says. Associate Professor Clyde Wild today called for the State Government to instead use drum lines, which he said was a better alternative to the hundreds of inadvertent deaths of other marine animals each year. Environmentalists have long called on the Government to take down the shark nets, at least during the winter months. An estimated 5,000 humpbacks make the annual migration up the east Australian coast to warmer northern waters each year. But the Queensland Government less than two weeks ago ruled out removing the nets after a review of the state's shark safety program found there was no better alternative. The review was sparked following the death of Sarah Whiley, 21, who was killed in shark attack at Amity Point, North Stradbroke Island, in January this year. Her death was the first fatal attack on a beach with shark safety measures in the 44-year history of the program. Prof Wild, the head of the School of Environmental Applied Sciences at Griffith University, said six drum lines offered the equivalent protection of one shark net. The decision to keep the nets offered "psychological" protection only and appeased a small proportion of the public, he said. "I think they should take all the nets away and put drum lines in their place, because drum lines achieve as much protection as nets, but they don't give peace of mind to people," Prof Wild said. "If they're going to keep the nets it'd be a really good idea to take them away during winter when few people are swimming and the whale migration season is on." Debate over the nets flared last August following the death of a baby humpback whale and a string of entanglements off the Gold Coast. The government later released figures showing 630 sharks were trapped in shark safety devices, in a bid to justify its use of the nets. Prof Wild said it was ironic life savers were no longer patrolling Gold Coast beaches as it neared winter, despite 20 times as many people drowning than "ending up shark bait".

Source Everyone cares about swimmers, and everyone cares about humpbacks, but why doesn't anyone give a rat's ass about a shark?

How the Hell are these Things Getting Stuck in Shark Nets Anyway?

--El Tiburon