The Australian Greens Party have a plan to phase out the use of shark nets and drum lines at Australia’s beaches and invest $50 million (US$36.7 million) over ten years towards the research and development of non-lethal shark control measures. In a policy launch at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Thursday, Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson called shark nets “weapons of mass destruction”, adding that “they don’t make the ocean safe for swimmers, surfers, divers, and other ocean goers.” Whish-Wilson, himself a surfer, said he’s been working on this issue in the federal parliament for almost a decade. “I want to make it really clear that every shark bite in this country, every death, is a tragedy…and this is a very controversial and often divisive issue in Australia, but it shouldn’t be,” he said. “We can do so much better to balance the risks for protecting marine life and protecting ocean goers, …