00:02A surfboard in pieces, evidence of a narrow escape.
00:07Geraldton local Mel Ismail bitten by a shark during a mid-morning surf at Glenfield Beach.
00:13I see him regularly in the water, surf with him quite often, as does everyone else in
00:19the local community, so there's a lot of feeling around it, there's a lot of rawness around
00:24it.
00:25The local fire station officer rushed to the Geraldton Health Campus for treatment.
00:30The traumatic attack witnessed by unnamed heroes who raced to help.
00:35To the people that were on the beach and involved with it, there's some real heroes amongst a
00:39bunch of them.
00:41Mr Ismail's surfboard will be tested to try to determine the species of shark involved.
00:47The incident shocking those who frequent the relatively hidden surf break.
00:51My kids have grown up there and we spend most weekends on that beach and to this point
00:57it felt very safe, very, very safe.
00:59I know over time we've had one or two little incidents but nothing to this calibre.
01:04The Shadow Fisheries Minister wasting no time questioning if the millions of dollars going
01:09towards mitigation is working.
01:11We are once again calling on the Cook Labor Government to take a deep dive into the mitigation
01:18strategy to understand whether it's working and whether that investment has been its worth
01:23and whether more needs to happen.
01:26In a statement, Fisheries Minister Jacqui Jarvis didn't respond to Mistwar's calls for a review,
01:31instead pointing to mitigation measures already in place such as patrols, the SharkSmart app,
01:37shark tagging and signage.
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