News and Alerts

The Department of Fisheries has again deployed capture gear to take a white shark that has been assessed as posing a serious threat to public safety after an increase in the number of day-time detections on consecutive days during the lead up to Christmas.

Beaches remain closed at Warnbro Sound due to a white shark detected in the area which has been assessed as posing a serious threat to public safety.

Following a series of tagged shark detections of a white shark at the Warnbro receiver a decision has been made to deploy capture gear to take a white shark that has been assessed as posing a serious threat to public safety.

The Department of Fisheries is advising water users between Port Kennedy and Ocean Reef to exercise additional caution, following a series of tagged shark detections at several Shark Monitoring Network receivers overnight.

Department of Fisheries is advising water users in Warnbro Sound to exercise additional caution, following a series of tagged white shark detections at the Warnbro Sound Shark Monitoring Network receiver and a reported sighting at Safety Bay Beach of a white shark 100m offshore in the last week and a half. 

The Department of Fisheries is advising water users that beaches either side of the groyne at Pyramids Beach, Mandurah has been closed by the City of Mandurah following a shark bite reported to have occurred this morning.

The Department of Fisheries is advising water users at Esperance to continue to exercise extra caution, following the sighting of sharks in the location of a whale carcass that washed ashore at Castletown Quays.

This week’s footage of a white shark bumping a recreational fishing vessel off the Perth Metropolitan coast, which was widely covered by the media, was not reported to authorities and the Department of Fisheries is reminding people to report shark sightings to Water Police.

The Department of Fisheries has confirmed that a dead whale is floating off the Perth metropolitan coast today and authorities have attached a line to tow the carcass out to sea. 

​The Department of Fisheries is advising water users in the Peaceful Bay area to continue to exercise extra caution, following the recent discovery of a whale carcass within the bay, which is approximately half way between Denmark and Walpole.