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POLICE have named the victim of a fatal Rottnest shark attack, as Fisheries hunt killer great white.
The shark attack victim has been named as 32-year-old Texan George Thomas Wainwright.
Mr Wainwright was in Australia on a working visa and had been living in North Beach for the past six months.
He was taken by a great white about 1.30pm on Saturday while scuba diving 500m off Little Armstrong Bay at Rottnest Island.
At 2.30pm on Sunday, a news chopper spotted a shark just 200m off-shore to the east of Thompson Bay.
A PerthNow survey and online poll revealed the majority of people do not believe the shark should be killed.
Witnesses on the island described seeing a large fin shortly after, but it's not yet clear whether authorities were able to locate the shark in the water.
"I saw a big fin in the water go between our boat and another boat - it went straight through the middle and just glided away," Rob Martin said from his friend's boat.
"They just need to kill it if it's hanging around."
Shannon Dale, who was having lunch with his wife at Dome cafe, said he saw two police officers running down the jetty with a brown paper bag shortly after the sighting at Thompson's Bay.
Officers carrying a large gun were seen boarding a patrol boat with Island rangers following the sightings.
On their arrival back to shore, the officers refused to comment on the contents of the bag or what they saw in the water. TV news cameras captured an officer pointing his gun towards the water as he scoured the ocean.
Government vessels circled waters off the island most of Sunday afternoon.
Just before lunch, six individual traps, set to capture the killer shark were pulled out of the water. At the time, a Fisheries spokesman said the department were not planning to re-deploy the lines unless there was a fresh sighting.
The traps are being used for the first time in WA.
The traps, each weighed down by a heavy anchor, have a baited hook floating near the surface in an effort to entice the shark.
Department of Fisheries spokesman Tony Cappelluti said the traps were set in and around where the fatal attack occurred.
"It's a line set-up, so each set of gear has a baited hook . . . they are quite robust with large floats on the top and a heavy anchor on the bottom."
Mr Cappelutti said two Department of Fisheries vessels were monitoring the equipment until early Sunday afternoon.
However, a shark that is suspected of killing someone, should not be killed because it is ''hanging around''
And those baited traps are a joke. They're specially designed to catch a killer shark?
What about the thousands of innocent sharks, how does it repel them? Or is it human flavored bait?
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