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Maps of beaches with shark control equipment

Visit our interactive map to find shark control equipment in place at your local beach.

Shark nets and drumlines are used at Queensland beaches to catch sharks passing through an area. The maps below show the locations of nets and drumlines across the Queensland coastline.

The Fisheries Act 1994 establishes an exclusion zone of 20 metres around shark control equipment. It is an offence for a person to be in the shark control equipment exclusion zone unless authorised and penalties may apply. The offence does not apply to boats transiting directly through the exclusion zone without stopping.

This table summarises the shark control equipment in place across Queensland’s coast.

Area Beaches with shark control equipmentDrumlinesNets
Gold Coast
  • Bilinga Beach
  • Broadbeach
  • Burleigh Beach
  • Coolangatta Beach
  • Currumbin Beach
  • Elkhorn Avenue
  • Greenmount Beach
  • Kirra Beach
  • Kurrawa Beach
  • Main Beach
  • Mermaid Beach
  • Miami Beach
  • Narrow Neck
  • Nobby Beach
  • North Burleigh Beach
  • Northcliffe Beach
  • North Kirra Beach
  • Palm Beach
  • Rainbow Bay
  • Sheraton Mirage Beach
  • Staghorn Avenue Beach
  • Surfers Paradise Beach
  • Tallebudgera Beach
  • Tugun Beach
YesYes
North Stradbroke Island
  • Amity Point
  • Cylinder Beach
  • Flinders Beach
  • Ocean Beach
YesNo
Sunshine Coast
  • Alexandra Headland
  • Bribie Island
  • Buddina Beach
  • Caloundra
  • Castaways Beach
  • Coolum Beach
  • Currimundi
  • Glen Eden Beach
  • Hyatt Regency Resort
  • Marcoola Beach
  • Marcus Beach
  • Maroochydore Beach
  • Moffat Beach
  • Mooloolaba Beach
  • Mudjimba Beach
  • Noosa
  • Peregian Beach
  • Point Cartwright
  • Sunrise Beach
  • Sunshine Beach
  • Surfair Resort
  • Twin Waters Resort
  • Wurtulla
  • Yaroomba Beach
YesYes
Rainbow Beach
  • Rainbow Beach
YesYes
Bundaberg / Woongarra Coast
  • Bargara
  • Kelly's Beach
  • Neilson Park
  • Oaks Beach
YesNo
Gladstone
  • Tannum Sands
YesNo
Capricorn Coast 
  • Cooee Bay
  • Emu Park
  • Farnborough Beach
  • Fishermans Beach
  • Kemp Beach
  • Lammermoor Beach
  • Mulambin Beach
  • Tanby Point
  • Yeppoon Beach
YesNo
Mackay
  • Blacks Beach
  • Bucasia Beach
  • Eimeo Beach
  • Harbour Beach
  • Lamberts Beach
  • South Lamberts Beach
YesYes
Townsville and Magnetic Island
  • Pallarenda Beach
  • The Strand (Kissing Point)
  • Alma Bay
  • Florence Bay
  • Horseshoe Bay
  • Nelly Bay
  • Picnic Bay
  • Radical Bay
YesNo
Cairns
  • Buchan Point Beach
  • Clifton Cairns Beach
  • Ellis Beach
  • Holloways Beach
  • Palm Cove Beach
  • Trinity Beach
  • Yorkey’s Knob
YesNo

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