Where is throsby wharf newcastle

Shark sightings appear to be on the rise in a creek in the centre of the New South Wales city of Newcastle. Throsby Creek and its tributaries form a highly modified drainage network that collects stormwater from the major part of central Newcastle and conveys it to Newcastle Harbour.

In recent weeks, creek-side locals from the suburbs of Carrington, Wickham, Tighes Hill and Maryville have taken to social media to warn of sightings of a shark, or sharks, up to 3 metres long. I am a dragon boat paddler and would never swim in the creek," Rita Lee said.

Maryville resident Rick Banyard said he had seen several sharks in the creek over several years. I was driving my car across the Lewis Street bridge," he said. It was a big dorsal fin and I knew it must be a fairly large shark. There have been two fatal shark attacks on people in Throsby Creek over the past century. In , year-old David Miller was killed after a shark bit his leg while he was swimming in the creek.

George Lundberg, 15, was attacked in the creek in and died within an hour of having his leg severed at the knee. Dogs and horses have also been taken in the creek dating back to , which resident Jarrod Banks described from his childhood in the late s. The Fishermen's Co-operative is along the creek, towards Newcastle harbour, and locals believed it was fishing trawlers and their bycatch that had been attracting the sharks. University of Newcastle marine biologist, Vincent Raoult, said bull sharks were aggressive and adaptive and that Throsby Creek would make an ideal home for the species.

The hairtail scientific name Trichiurus lepturus is a member of the cutlassfish family, Trichiuradae, that is widely dispersed across the temperate oceans of the world. When the Newcastle Herald visited Throsby Wharf at dusk on that Sunday in March, , dozens of anglers almost all of them from western Sydney, and almost all of Asian descent were in the midst of a fishing frenzy. Most were armed with long, whippy rods, and most were using pilchards for bait, rigged on triple-ganged hooks.

Read more: Anglers hang out for the Hairtail at Newcastle. Many had illuminated floats believed to attract the fish and some were having success with rubber lures jigged through the darkening water. Despite their wide distribution about the globe, the fish are very rarely caught by weekend anglers, and were for many years associated with just one waterway Cowan Creek and its nearby tributaries in the lower Hawkesbury River, in Ku-Ring-Gail Chase National Park.

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