{"id":311822,"date":"2025-12-12T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311822\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:54:09","slug":"four-metre-tiger-shark-caught-on-drumline-off-popular-gold-coast-surfing-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311822\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-metre tiger shark caught on drumline off popular Gold Coast surfing beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage has surfaced of a four-metre tiger shark that was caught on a drumline on the southern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/gold-coast\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Gold Coast\">Gold Coast<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Drone footage of the dead shark being hauled onto a boat by a government contractor in waters off Snapper Rocks at Rainbow Bay have been circulated on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe extraordinary footage received a mixed response online with some commenters glad the shark was no longer in the water and others upset that the shark had been killed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/23837a47-d57c-4424-94d8-d2872dbddc1d.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>Contractors haul the dead shark onto the boat. (Instagram \/ @bthedrifter)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/9a8a6946-fffa-42a6-a080-c099b0668918.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>The 4.1m shark was caught in a drumline off Rainbow Bay. (Instagram \/ @bthedrifter)<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Primary Industries spokesperson said the 4.1m shark was one of 11 tiger sharks caught at Rainbow Bay this year to date.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tiger sharks can grow up to approximately six metres in length so while this is a very large shark, it is far from the largest for this species,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tiger sharks are a target species for the (Shark Control) program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The purpose of the shark control program is to reduce the risk of shark attacks along Queensland&#8217;s coastal beaches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/58df3c19-16ad-43d2-9478-1da7f1988c96.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>Tiger sharks are one of seven target species on the government&#8217;s shark control program. (Instagram \/ @bthedrifter)<\/p>\n<p>Tiger sharks are one of seven target shark species in the program.<\/p>\n<p>Snapper Rocks, at the southern end of Rainbow Bay, is a world-famous surf spot \ufeffpopular with swimmers and surfers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, surfer Nick Slater was killed by a great white shark bite at nearby Greenmount Beach\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first fatal shark bite in Gold Coast waters since \ufeff1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage has surfaced of a four-metre tiger shark that was caught on a drumline on the southern Gold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-311822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}