A total of 4 threat abatement strategies have been identified to help tackle this key threatening process. Each of these strategies has a number of priority actions within it. The table below shows these strategies and priority actions. You can also see details of the broad geographic regions each priority action applies to in New South Wales.
For more general information about this key threatening process, see a detailed threat profile.
| Description of priority action | Priority |
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| Threat abatement strategy: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines |
| Review strategies to respond to marine mammal and turtle capture and work with Department of Primary Industries to coordinate strategies to limit the incidental entanglement of marine mammals and turtles. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Other Action |
| Support the continuation of the NSW shark meshing program being subject to the appropriate level of environmental assessment under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 with threat abatement measures being addressed as part of this process. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare Statement of Intent by 2008. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Research |
| Support research into shark control programs including examining the effectiveness of the program and ways of reducing the accidental capture of non-target marine mammals and turtles. | High |
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