SHARKS — HAZARD
MITIGATION
1152. Hon TJORN SIBMA to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Fisheries:
(1) How many
shark monitoring receivers are operating presently in Western Australia, and
where are these receivers located?
(2) What is the approximate cost of
these receivers in capital and recurrent terms?
(3) Can the
minister advise when the government will complete the upgrade to these
receivers, as advised in his answer of 7 December?
Hon KYLE
McGINN replied:
I
thank the member for some notice of the question. The following answer has been
provided by the Minister for Fisheries.
(1) There are
currently 34 shark monitoring receivers deployed between the Perth metropolitan
area and Esperance.
(2) The capital
cost of a shark monitoring receiver will vary dependent on location and
installation costs. The capital costs are
between $45 000 and $75 000. The recurrent cost varies according to the number
of detections within the receiver array. The approximate recurrent costs
are between $50 000 and $55 000 each year.
(3) The government has provided
funding for these upgrades through to the 2022–23 financial year.