There’s an impassioned campaign to remove shark nets in south-east Queensland waters, after another whale got caught in the nets off Gold Coast’s Kirra Beach today.

It’s the fifth whale to be caught in the shark nets this year and the third in just a week.

The state government says there’s no plans to remove them.

Marine biologist the Humane Society, Lawrence Chlebeck, described the nets as “indiscriminate killing devices”.

“I wouldn’t be campaigning to get rid of these nets if I thought they leant anything to public safety, it’s been proven that shark nets are nothing more than a false sense of security,” he told Peter Fegan on 4BC Drive.

“There’s 40 per cent of those sharks caught in the nets are in the inside or the beach side, [they’ve] already been close to the shore and were just heading their way back out.”

The shark nets were installed in the 1960s.

He is imploring the department to update their program.

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