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"'It is not breeding quickly enough. It is being caught out in the wild and it is not recovering from the fishing pressures on the east coast'," said Melbourne Aquarium curator Nick Kirby.

Nicknamed the 'labrador of the sea' due to its docile nature, grey nurse numbers plunged after being wrongfully blamed for many attacks on swimmers off Sydney beaches and it was brutally hunted until the 1960s.

Their plight has now become critical."

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"Preliminary results from the first large-scale test of specially designed fishing hooks indicate they can reduce the number of endangered sea turtles killed in long line fishing operations by as much as 90 percent, while having almost no effect on the catch rate of targeted fish."

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"Larger marine animals such as squid could face extinction as they find it harder to extract oxygen from sea water and their food supplies dwindle."