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Species

I try to focus on fish that's in the Least Concern list on the IUCN scale. Lately a few of the species we catch have entered the near threatened list and I'm grateful for Australia's fisheries that are managing this so that we can keep the fishery intact. I've unfortunately had to witness depleted fisheries in both Sweden and Indonesia. We're so lucky in Australia.

Haul

📄️ Sharks

I get asked this a lot and yes of course it's a concern. I don't necessarily worry about a shark jumping out of the water and grabbing me. There are situations that I know can happen and it's almost inevitable that they will. Such as a big great white or tiger shark (I'm talking close to 5m) will come check you out. Hopefully they'll just go past and have a look a couple of times and not try to bite the kayak. If that happens I'll probably end up in the water. At that point I hope the shark gets scared too, otherwise I'm in a bit of trouble.