Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: ABC News Australia via Reuters Rescuers respond to a fatal shark attack about 90 miles north of Perth, Australia, on July 14. A surfer was killed by a shark, bringing to five the number of fatal attacks in Western Australia in the past year. 
  
 Following a record number of attacks this year, and retracting his earlier stand, the leader of a state on Australia's west coast announced Thursday that any great white sharks seen near beachgoers would be killed in order to prevent attacks on humans. 
  
 "We will always put the lives and safety of beachgoers ahead of the shark," Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett told ABC Radio Australia. "This is, after all, a fish — let's keep it in perspective." 
  
 Previously, sharks could only be hunted if there had already been an attack on a swimmer and, even after a fatal attack last March, Barnett had ruled out changing that strategy, saying "the ocean is the domain of the shark and we go there with a risk always." 
  
 But the state has now seen five deaths this year — out of a total of just 12 recorded over the last 100 years. 
  
 The new strategy includes more watercraft and helicopter patrols as well, but it was not welcomed by everyone. 
  
 The Conservation Council of Western Australia called it a "guilty until proven innocent" approach, The Australian reported. 
  
 Authorities are searching for the large shark after it killed a surfer on Saturday off the Australia coast. The shark was believed to be at least 13 feet long. NBC's Duncan Golestani reports. 
  
 "This may be the most reactionary and archaic response I have seen in my lifetime of shark study," added George Burgess, curator of the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File. 
  
 "Such methods run totally in contrast to modern scientific thinking," he told NBC News, noting that "no evidence" from the 5,000 attacks on file suggest that sharks have become more aggressive toward humans. In fact, only two or maybe three of those attacks can even be attributed to one shark involved in multiple strikes. 
  
 Western Australia's strategy, he added, "is particularly ill-founded in that it involves a protected species — an animal already acknowledged to be in trouble not only in Australia but in most areas of its biological range. 
  
 "We're supposed to be smarter than the average shark," he said, adding that scientists know general shark migratory patterns and that can be used to better warn beachgoers and even close beaches ahead of time when needed. 
  
 Great white sharks have been a protected species in Australian waters for more than a decade, but Barnett's fisheries minister last July suggested it might be time to review that. 
  
 A great white shark attacked and killed a 33-year-old diver in Australia, the fourth such attack in seven months. NBC's Annabelle Roberts reports. 
  
 "I wonder if research might tell us that there are now much greater number of great whites than ever before, and maybe we should look at whether they should remain a protected species," Norman Moore told reporters. 
  
 Burgess said any culling would further threaten the species. "It's sad they're going after one of the animals that can least take that fishing pressure" since it is relatively scarce in the ocean. 
  
 More than 100 species of shark are found in Australian waters but most are not aggressive. The great white, tiger and bull sharks are considered the most dangerous. 
  
 Great whites prefer the colder and temperate waters of Australia's south, while tiger and bull sharks are more common in northern tropical waters. 
  
 Burgess said there is no evidence showing that sharks "hang around" beaches and instead they tend to follow migratory patterns in search of food like whales. 
  
 Still, France last month authorized a cull of around 20 sharks off its Indian Ocean island of Reunion after a series of attacks in the surfing hot spot. 
  
 A man has suffered serious injuries after being bitten by a shark on the east coast of Australia. Msnbc.com's Alex Witt reports. 
  
 In the U.S., "preventive hunting of white sharks" is not allowed, Monica Allen, a spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told NBC News. "White sharks are an important part of the ocean ecosystem," she said, and instead "coastal communities and states use public education to help reduce the risk of shark attacks, which are rare." 
  
 Burgess said great whites along both U.S. coasts probably number in the low thousands, and Allen said the species appears to be seeing pressure. 
  
 "In the Atlantic, white sharks are prohibited from being landed by fishermen because of the status of the stock," she said. "NOAA is also reviewing a petition to consider listing the Pacific white shark under the Endangered Species Act." 
  
 Reuters contributed to this report. 
  
 More world stories from NBC News: 
  
 Follow World News from NBCNews.com on Twitter and Facebook 
  
  
  
  ||||| A PLAN to protect West Australian beachgoers by killing great white sharks that come too close has angered animal welfare advocates and conservationists. 
  
 Many were also affronted by Premier Colin Barnett's dismissal of the animals as just "fish". 
  
 The government on Thursday announced a $6.85 million package of "shark mitigation" strategies in response to five fatal attacks in the state's waters within 10 months. 
  
 It has allocated $2 million for a new Department of Fisheries service to track, catch and destroy sharks found in close proximity to swimmers. 
  
 The government has also redefined the circumstances in which an order may be given to kill sharks that pose an imminent threat to humans. 
  
 "Previously the orders were used in response to an attack, but now proactive action will be taken if a large white shark presents imminent threat to people," Fisheries Minister Norman Moore said. 
  
 Baited drum lines could also be set to capture sharks that presented a danger, he said. 
  
 Premier Colin Barnett said it was "not going to be a shark hunt". 
  
 "We will always put the lives and safety of beachgoers ahead of the shark," he told ABC radio. 
  
 "This is, after all, a fish - let's keep it in perspective." 
  
 The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) said the "guilty until proven innocent" approach was a knee jerk reaction to public concern that would harm the environment and would not protect swimmers. 
  
 "We urge the government not to use the new kill powers for sharks," CCWA marine co-ordinator Tim Nicol said. 
  
 "We are ... concerned that this policy perpetuates the fear that all large sharks are potential killers, when in fact we do not know this." 
  
 The Wilderness Society was also critical of "pre-emptive cullings", while ABC radio talkback callers flooded the phone lines, with many saying the best way to stay safe was to stay out of the shark's habitat. 
  
 Some said the strategies were vote-grabbing stunts. 
  
 Mr Barnett also on Thursday reiterated his opposition to shark nets because they posed a threat to marine life. 
  
 Instead, $2 million will go towards continuing shark tagging programs, including the use of GPS tracking systems, while $2 million will go into a research fund over four years. 
  
 Mr Nichol welcomed the research funding. 
  
 "If we want to reduce fear of swimming at our beaches, then we need to engage in research and education, not in killing with no purpose," he said. 
  
 "For example, we need to explain the times of year that are most dangerous because of oceanic events that attract large sharks to feed near shore, for example when snapper are spawning in Cockburn Sound." 
  
 University of WA, where researchers are developing shark attack deterrent wetsuits, also welcomed the research funding. 
  
 The government also pledged $200,000 for a feasibility study and trial of a beach enclosure to protect swimmers, $500,000 for extra jet skis for Surf Lifesaving WA, and $150,000 for community awareness programs, including a smartphone application. |||||
A:
Australia has seen a big increase in shark attacks in recent years, including a record five deaths in 2012—all of which is bad news for swimmers and now for sharks as well. The state of Western Australia has put into place an aggressive new policy to track and kill sharks spotted anywhere in the general vicinity of swimmers, reports the Australian. It's a major shift from previous policy, which allowed such hunts only after attacks. "We will always put the lives and safety of beachgoers ahead of the shark," said Premier Colin Barnett. "This is, after all, a fish—let's keep it in perspective." The change, along with Barnett's it's-just-a-fish remark, has conservation groups seething. One condemns it as a "guilty until proven innocent" policy. NBC News notes that as recently as March, after a fatal attack, Barnett rejected the idea of changing the policy: "The ocean is the domain of the shark and we go there with a risk always." The subsequent deaths ramped up political pressure to do something, however.